Includes bibliographical reference and appendix.

Introduction / Timothy P. Foley, Lionel Pilkington, Sean Ryder and Elizabeth Tilley -- 1. Sexuality and the Ignorance of the Triumphant Imagination / Catherine La Farge -- 2. 'This Inconstant Sea-Nimph:' History and the Limitations of Knowledge in John Davies' Writings about Ireland / Anne Fogarty -- 3. The Gaze Returned: Shakespeare's Admiring Miranda / Lisa Hopkins -- 4. The Imperial Adventure Hero and British Masculinity: The Imagining of Sir Henry Havelock / Graham Dawson -- 5. 'No woman is worth it ... :' Flora Annie Steel and the Indian Mutiny / Patrick Williams -- 6. Imperial Masculinity and the Flight from Domesticity in Britain 1880-1914 / John Tosh -- 7. Mapping the Colonial Body: Sexual Economies and the State in Colonial India / Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick -- 8. The Marginalization of Women in Writings on the Indian Nationalist Movement / Suruchi Thapar -- 9. 'Black and White Slaves:' Discourses of Race and Victorian Feminism / Susan Brown -- 10. A Novel from/on the Margins: George Egerton's Wheel of God / Scott McCracken -- 11. A Family Romance: Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Three Historical Dramas by Canadian Women / Ann Wilson -- 12. Writing out of a Frontier Mythology: Representation of Difference in Post-Colonial Australian Women's Writing / Amanda Nettlebeck -- 13. Towards a Representation of Insurgency: Margaretta D'Arcy's Feminist 'Tour of Duty' / Laura Lyons -- 14. Feminism, Nationalism, and the Heritage of the Enlightenment / Carol Coulter -- 15. Gender and the Discourse of 'Young Ireland' Nationalism / Sean Ryder -- 16. Unfaithful to the Original: The Subject of Dictee / Lisa Lowe -- 17. Nationalisms Against the State: Towards a Critique of the Anti-Nationalist Prejudice / David Lloyd -- 18. Gender and Colonialism in an Age Called 'Postcolonial' / Barbara Harlow.