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Argues that by meeting the vast administrative challenge of the British Empire - thorough maps and surveys, censuses and statistics - Victorian administrators developed a new symbiosis of knowledge and power. The book draws on works by Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and Bram Stoker.

Colonies in literature. --- English literature --- Fantasy literature, English --- Imperialism in literature. --- Imperialism --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature. --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- History --- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature --- Imperialism in literature --- Colonies in literature --- Great Britain --- Colonies --- Historiography. --- Intellectual life