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THE ENDS OF (THE BRITISH) EMPIRE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2006

Patrick Brantlinger
Patrick Brantlinger
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Indiana University
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Abstract

The Empire of England, on which formerly the sun never set, has become one on which he never rises.

—John Ruskin, “The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century” (1884)

Type
REVIEW ESSAY
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 351 - 369
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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