Imperial Desire: Dissident Sexualities and Colonial Literature
- ISBN-10
- 1452905223
- ISBN-13
- 9781452905228
- Category
- Colonies in literature
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- U of Minnesota Press
- Authors
- Philip Holden, Richard R. Ruppel
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