Books by Gretchen Murphy

During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his famous poem "The White Man's Burden". This title creates a fresh historical frame for understanding race and literature in America. It maintains that literature symptomized and channelled anxiety about the racial components of the US world mission.

Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire.