I found the readings on race and empire particularly relevant for my topic, and I was wondering if anyone else is looking at something similar. I plan on writing on the economic motives and effects of British imperial expansion, as they relate to “The Prince’s Dream,” which condemns Gold and the pursuit of it as the source of men’s misery. It’s a little tricky because none of the stories (except for Kipling’s, set in colonial India) directly reference the British empire, so the relationship is wide open to interpretation. I haven’t found a ton of evidence yet, but I think I can make my ideas work. More generally, I’m interested in how people thought the fact of Britain being the world’s imperial superpower influenced Victorian writers of fairy tales?