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This social, political, religious, academic and historical background to
colonialism has a tremendous, persistent influence. It is in turn
reinforced by and reinforces imperialism. Moreover, the values that
enabled empire and imperial exploitations also shaped not only the
fiction of early 20th century writers like Rudyard Kipling, E.M. Forster
and Joseph Conrad, but even the works of those novelists we rarely
associate with imperialism, such as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens,
Thomas Hardy and Henry James.
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