{"title":"Writing for Children in the Era of Chinese Exclusion: Yan Phou Lee and When I Was a Boy in China","authors":"J. M. Duvall","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2023.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2023.9","url":null,"abstract":"Yan Phou Lee’s When I Was a Boy in China (1887), the first known book by an Asian published in the United States, was not written as such, but as a series of articles for Wide Awake , a children’s magazine, while Lee, a former Chinese Educational Mission student, finished his education at Yale College. This article considers Lee’s book in light of his purposeful work to become a writer in the service of the Chinese and reads it within the context of a children’s periodical market rife with writing centred on the real and imagined lives of children in other locations – geographic, social, racial, and ethnic. Lee developed a critique of the wonder cultivated and capitalized on by Orientalist representation, and he brought this critique to bear as he wrote for children in the era of Chinese exclusion.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139268291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Moment’s Reprieve: Reading Edward Prime-Stevenson’s Left to Themselves Geographically","authors":"Tom Ue, Jacob Guy Aubut","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2023.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2023.10","url":null,"abstract":"Earlier treatments of Edward Prime-Stevenson’s Left to Themselves (1891) have performed the crucial tasks of arguing for its importance in literary history as well as examining some of its formal innovations. This article advances scholarship by attending to its treatment of places. In the novel, the young protagonists Philip Touchtone and Gerald Saxton embark on an eventful journey from New York to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Along the way, they encounter all sorts of perils from attempted kidnapping to actual shipwrecks. Philip’s and Gerald’s perceptions, and their engagements with space, we suggest, inform our understandings of them and of Stevenson’s social commentary. By analysing his project geographically, and with particular attention to a central episode that takes place in the fictional Chantico Island, this essay reveals how Stevenson turns to places to expose, to unsettle, and ultimately to (re)imagine social realities.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"51 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139269990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lendy, Lobengula, and London: The 1893 Anglo-Ndebele War Revisited","authors":"Ian Phimister","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2023.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2023.8","url":null,"abstract":"In October and November 1893, Ndebele warriors of Lobengula Khumalo’s Matabeleland kingdom in the western third of what is now Zimbabwe were defeated by troopers of Cecil Rhodes’s British South Africa Company. Framed by the context of what Friedrich Engels understood to be the driving force behind colonization, ‘today this is purely a subsidiary of the stock exchange … Africa leased directly to companies … and Mashonaland … seized by Rhodes for the stock exchange’, but refracted through local, regional, and international issues, the first section covers the period 1888 to 1892. It focuses on the ownership of the concession extracted by Rhodes’s emissaries, the amalgamation in London of competing financial interests, and the local dynamics of the Ndebele state. The second part looks at the reasons why Rhodes was persuaded that war would solve the chartered company’s problems. The conclusion points to the global reach of late nineteenth-century financial capitalism.","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"C-35 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139267591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"London in 1810: Spanish American Independence at 27 Grafton Street","authors":"Omar F. Miranda","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132391099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuban Independence in the British Press, 1894–1898","authors":"Keith Clavin","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2023.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2023.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"234 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121421697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Haggard’s\u0000 Montezuma’s Daughter\u0000 (1893) as Memoir of the Spanish Conquest","authors":"Luz Elena Ramírez","doi":"10.3828/gncs.2023.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/gncs.2023.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":312774,"journal":{"name":"Global Nineteenth-Century Studies","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124709045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}