Books by Patrick Brantlinger

This provocative look inside the ivory tower is required reading for anyone who thinks he or she knows what's at stake in the modern university.

In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only approximate, yet...

Brantlinger offers an introduction to the rapidly growing field of cultural studies, charting its development in both Britain and America and assessing the contribution of a range of theory from phenomenology to psychoanalysis.