List of Figures

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Introduction: The Everlasting Leviathan Chantal Zabus and Silvia Nagy-Zekmi

1

Part I:
Post-War Representations of Empire

17

Chapter 1: Postimperial Rural Histories
and “Ironic Nostalgia” in
W. G. Sebald’sThe Rings of Saturn
Lucienne Loh

19

Chapter 2: Under the Sign ofSugar and Rum:
Entitlement, Authority, and Authorship
in Postcolonial England
Jennifer P. Nesbitt

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Chapter 3: The Breadcrumb Trail: Nineteenth-Century
Child Hauntings in the Novels of Peter
Rushforth and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Anca Vlasopolos

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Chapter 4: Disordered Identities: Virginia Woolf,
Jacques Derrida, and the Problem
of the ImperialI
Andrea L. Yates

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