The Half-Caste
Published on 4. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-55481-275-2 (ISBN)
Description
Dinah Mulock Craik's The Half-Caste concerns the coming-of-age of its title character, the mixed-race Zillah Le Poer, daughter of an English merchant and an Indian princess. Sent back to England as a young girl, Zillah has no knowledge that she is an heiress. She lives with her uncle Le Poer, his wife, and two daughters, and is treated as little more than a servant in the household. Zillah's situation is gradually improved when Cassandra Pryor is employed as a governess to the Le Poer daughters and takes an interest in the mysterious ""cousin."" Craik explores issues of gender, race, and empire in the Victorian period in this compact and gripping novella.
Along with a newly-annotated text, this Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that discusses Craik's involvement with contemporary racial and imperialist attitudes, her place within the broader genre of Anglo-Indian fiction, and the importance of Zillah Le Poer as a positive symbol of empire. The edition is also enriched with relevant contemporary contextual material, including Dinah Mulock Craik's writing on gender and female employment, British views on the biracial Eurasian community in India, and writings on the Victorian governess.
Along with a newly-annotated text, this Broadview edition includes a critical introduction that discusses Craik's involvement with contemporary racial and imperialist attitudes, her place within the broader genre of Anglo-Indian fiction, and the importance of Zillah Le Poer as a positive symbol of empire. The edition is also enriched with relevant contemporary contextual material, including Dinah Mulock Craik's writing on gender and female employment, British views on the biracial Eurasian community in India, and writings on the Victorian governess.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Calgary
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
279 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55481-275-2 (9781554812752)
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Persons
Melissa Edmundson is an Instructor in the Division of Arts and Letters at the University of South Carolina, USA.
Content
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Dinah Mulock Craik: A Brief Chronology
- A Note on the Text
- The Half-CasteAppendix A: Dinah Mulock Craik on Gender Issues and Female Employment
- From Dinah Mulock Craik, A Woman's Thoughts about Women (1858)
- From ""Concerning Men, By a Woman,"" Cornhill (1887)
- Appendix B: The British Empire, Race, and the ""Eurasian Question""
- From ""Half-Castes,"" House of Commons, Minutes of Evidence Taken before the Select Committee on the Affairs ofthe East India Company (1832)
- From A.D. Rowe, Every-day Life in India (1881)
- From Mrs. John B. Speid, Our Last Years in India (1862)
- From Graham Sandberg, ""Our Outcast Cousins in India,"" The Contemporary Review (1892)
- William Browne Hockley, ""The Half-Caste Daughter"" (1841)
- From [Philip] Meadows Taylor, Seeta (1872)
- From Dinah Mulock Craik, Olive (1850)
- Appendix C: The Victorian Governess
- From ""Hints on the Modern Governess System,"" Fraser's Magazine (November 1844)
- From Sarah Lewis, ""On the Social Position of Governesses,"" Fraser's Magazine (1848)
- From Emily Peart, A Book for Governesses (1868)
- From The Letters of Charlotte Bronte
- Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey (30 June 1839)
- Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey (3 March 1841)
- From Dinah Mulock Craik, Bread upon the Waters: A Governess's Life (1852)
- Introduction
- Dinah Mulock Craik: A Brief Chronology
- A Note on the Text
- The Half-CasteAppendix A: Dinah Mulock Craik on Gender Issues and Female Employment
- From Dinah Mulock Craik, A Woman's Thoughts about Women (1858)
- From ""Concerning Men, By a Woman,"" Cornhill (1887)
- Appendix B: The British Empire, Race, and the ""Eurasian Question""
- From ""Half-Castes,"" House of Commons, Minutes of Evidence Taken before the Select Committee on the Affairs ofthe East India Company (1832)
- From A.D. Rowe, Every-day Life in India (1881)
- From Mrs. John B. Speid, Our Last Years in India (1862)
- From Graham Sandberg, ""Our Outcast Cousins in India,"" The Contemporary Review (1892)
- William Browne Hockley, ""The Half-Caste Daughter"" (1841)
- From [Philip] Meadows Taylor, Seeta (1872)
- From Dinah Mulock Craik, Olive (1850)
- Appendix C: The Victorian Governess
- From ""Hints on the Modern Governess System,"" Fraser's Magazine (November 1844)
- From Sarah Lewis, ""On the Social Position of Governesses,"" Fraser's Magazine (1848)
- From Emily Peart, A Book for Governesses (1868)
- From The Letters of Charlotte Bronte
- Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey (30 June 1839)
- Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey (3 March 1841)
- From Dinah Mulock Craik, Bread upon the Waters: A Governess's Life (1852)