| Description |
xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Romanticism and colonialism: texts, contexts, issues / Tim Fulford and Peter J. Kitson -- 2. Romanticism and colonialism: races, places, peoples, 1785-1800 / Peter J. Kitson -- 3. Romanticism and colonialism: races, places, peoples, 1800-1830 / Tim Fulford -- 4. Accessing India: Orientalism, anti-'Indianism' and the rhetoric of Jones and Burke / Michael J. Franklin -- 5. 'Sunshine and Shady Groves': what Blake's 'Little Black Boy' learned from African writers / Lauren Henry -- 6. Blood Sugar / Timothy Morton -- 7. 'Wisely forgetful': Coleridge and the politics of Pantisocracy / James C. McKusick -- 8. Darkness visible? Race and representation in Bristol abolitionist poetry, 1770-1810 / Alan Richardson -- 9. Fictional constructions of Liberated Africans: Mary Butt Sherwood / Moira Ferguson -- 10. 'Wandering through Eblis'; absorption and containment in Romantic exoticism / Nigel Leask -- 11. The Isle of Devils: The Jamaican journal of M. G. Lewis / D. L. Macdonald |
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12. Indian Jugglers: Hazlitt, Romantic Orientalism, and the difference of view / John Whale -- 13. 'Some samples of the finest Orientalism': Byronic Philhellenism and proto-Zionism at the time of the Congress of Vienna / Caroline Franklin -- 14. 'Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee ...': Byron's Venice and Oriental Empire / Malcolm Kelsall -- 15. The plague of imperial desire: Montesquieu, Gibbon, Brougham, and Mary Shelley's The Last Man / Joseph W. Lew |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Colonies in literature.
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English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Politics and literature -- Colonies -- Great Britain.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100238
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United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100239
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| Author |
Fulford, Tim, 1962-
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Kitson, Peter J.
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| LC no. |
97044330 |
| ISBN |
0521591430 |
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