Introduction: Empire and Its Afterlives (Essay‪)‬

The essays in this special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose, written from the general standpoint of postcolonial studies, focus on various aspects of writing about empire and imperialism in the 1800s and early 1900s. They deal with missionary publishing and martyrdom (Johnston); land law in Ireland and India (Maurer); gorillas, cannibals, and "category confusion" in African exploration narratives (Bivona); uses of the sublime, again in African exploration narratives (Libby); the heroization of General Gordon in the press (Miller); women's concentration camp narratives during the Boer War (Krebs); and the emergence of a critical discourse of suburbanization, between metropole and periphery, in late Victorian and early modern prose (Kuchta). **********