Revisiting Robert Tressell's Mugsborough: New Perspectives on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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Chapter 5: [Re]Creation of Self, Text, and Audience: The Impact of Tressell’s Irish Roots on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Marion Walls

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[Re]Creating Self: Tressell’s “Fractured” Roots

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Tressell and “The Society of United Irishmen”

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The Colony of “Mugsborough”

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[Re]Creating Text and Audience

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Chapter 6: Reading South African Impressions on The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Julie Cairnie and Jonathon Hyslop

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From “A Ragged Trousered Philanthropist and the Empire: Robert Tressell in South Africa”

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South African Clues

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Robert Tressell’s Cape Town

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From “Imperial Poverty in Robert Tressell’s The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

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Tressell’s Anti-incorporation: “Excluded from the Benefits of Civilization”

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Tressell’s Pro-incorporation: “Everybody will be Civilised”

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Chapter 7: The Whited Sepulchre: Christianity and Philosophy in The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Marion Walls

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