War of No Pity

[T]his is an exemplary exercise in the subtle fusing of historical and literary methods, and Herbert is to be congratulated on producing a genuinely original and thought provoking book. --Maria Misra, The Historian It should be required reading for every scholar of Victorian culture and above all for students of imperialism and the Empire. --Thomas William Heyck, European Legacy Students of Britain's nineteenth-century empire owe Herbert a considerable debt for the sheer volume of Mutiny references, both popular and highbrow, he has assembled here. . . . Herbert has given us new and compelling reasons to return to the Mutiny as a watershed, if not the watershed, moment in the making of Victorian imperial culture. --Antoinette Burton, Journal of Modern History [T]his is an excellent book, admirable in its scope and depth, thoroughly enjoyable, and very thought provoking. --Michael J. Turner, Journal of British Studies A most impressive study of colonial relations and India is Christopher Herbert's War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma that, in great and significant detail, does away with as many presuppositions as possible. --Ann C. Colley, Studies in English Literature Christopher Herbert has done postcolonialists, Victorianists, and indeed anyone interested in modern violence a remarkable service in reading a vast amount of Mutiny literature and returning to tell the tale of it. War of No Pity explicates the kind of violence that can ensue between any us and any them, given the recurrent conditions of empire, in all of its forms and fictions. --Elaine Freedgood, Criticism War of No Pity is a vital and vitally important work of literary, cultural, and historical criticism, one that no student of the Victorian period can afford not to know. --Stephen Arata, Victorian Studies