Set in Authority
In 1906, two years after the appearance of her best-known novel, The Imperialist, Duncan published its darker twin, an Anglo-Indian novel which returns to political themes but with a deeper and more clinical irony than in her previous work. Set in Authority is about illusions: the imperial illusions of those who rule and are ruled; the illusions of families about their members; the illusions of men and women about each other. The setting moves between the political drawing rooms of London and the English station at Pilaghur in the province of Ghoom, where the murder of a native by an English soldier changes the lives of a cast of ruthlessly o…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-55111-080-6
- EAN: 9781551110806
- Produktnummer: 23308848
- Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 343 S.
- Masse: H21.2 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.7 cm 384 g
- Abbildungen: Illustrations, 1 port.
- Gewicht: 384
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