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Abstract
In their speeches and writings, many British Victorian colonials raise concerns about the successful implementation of law and authority. Their anxiety resonates beyond imperial governments and legislative structures; it also questions the internal coherence of colonial rule.4 In interpreting this anxiety, I suggest in this paper that a conflict between desire and mastery prevailed on what I shall term Britain's 'colonial impulse to power'.
Recommended Citation
Lane, Christopher, Passion's 'Cumulative Poison': Colonial Desire and Friendship in Kipling's Early Fiction, Kunapipi, 18(1), 1996.
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