Lands of Desire and Loss

Lands of Desire and Loss develops an interdisciplinary approach connecting the literary and geographical imagination which shape British perception and representation of colonial and postcolonial spaces. Through her readings of literary works belonging to the dawn of colonial enterprises (Walter Raleigh’s The Discoverie of Guiana and Shakespeare’s The Tempest ), the heyday of the British Empire (H. Rider Haggard’s She and W.H. Hudson’s Green Mansions ) and the postcolonial consciousness refashio