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Chapter 8 - Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2019

By
Judy Suh
Edited by
James Smith
James Smith
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Throughout the 1930s, old and new forms of media continued to uphold the centrality of imperialism in British nationalism. Adventure stories featuring imperial benevolence and derring-do written in the previous century by Henry Rider Haggard, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, and G. A. Henty remained popular cultural touchstones. Popular radio programmes such as the BBC’s Empire Day and Christmas broadcasts reflected a view of the Empire ‘as a topic of central concern to national life, one which could be turned to nationalist, moral, and quasi-religious ends’.

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The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s , pp. 128 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • Empire
  • Edited by James Smith, University of Durham
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s
  • Online publication: 18 December 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108646345.009
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  • Edited by James Smith, University of Durham
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108646345.009
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  • Empire
  • Edited by James Smith, University of Durham
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the 1930s
  • Online publication: 18 December 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108646345.009
Available formats
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