TY - BOOK AU - Murray,Cara TI - Victorian narrative technologies in the Middle East SN - 9780415957915 : AV - PR871 .M87 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - English literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Technology in literature KW - Literature and society KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Middle East KW - East and West in literature KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - Islam and science. KW - In literature KW - Islamic countries N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index N2 - Using narrative theory and postcolonial theory, this study reveals the cultural changes that turned England from a nation that abstained from investing in the internationally conceived Suez Canal to an imperial power who, by 1875, owned it ER -