… I know how you came to despise all that sickly Wagnerian idiocy and bombast.

Louis's brow wore its deepest gloom as he said, There are few in yonder room who would so cavalierly reject my love.

The Middle-East is a geopolitically important region.

Meaney demonstrates that in Australia, too, a prior emphasis on settler rights and constitutional principles gave way to a more racialized conception of Britishness from roughly mid-century.