This collection of essays is concerned with the impact of the experience of empire upon the literary imagination as far as Ireland, Africa and India are concerned. These essays examine the manner in which British imperial experience has been expressed in literature.

Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; R.Giddings - The Cross of St George: The Burden of Contemporary Irish Literature; D.B.Watson - Race and Empire in the Stories of R.M.Ballantyne; C.Parker - From Newbury to Salman Rushdie: Teaching the Literature of Imperialism in Higher Education; D.Butts - Ironies of Progress: Joseph Conrad and Imperialism in Africa; D.C.R.A.Goonetilleke - Imperial Integration on Wheels: The Car, the British and the Cape to Cairo Route; J.B.Wolf - The Intransigent Internal Colony: Narrative Strategies in Modern South African Popular Fiction; J.A.Stotesbury - Lawrence: The Myth and the Message; J.M.McKenzie - Cry God for Harry, England and Lord Kitchener; R.Giddings - Index