| Description |
vii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Racial Sublime / Laura Doyle -- 2. Domesticating Fictions and Nationalizing Women: Edmund Burke, Property, and the Reproduction of Englishness / Deidre Lynch -- 3. Mothering and National Identity in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft / Rajani Sudan -- 4. Mumbo Jumbo: Mungo Park and the Rhetoric of Romantic Africa / Ashton Nichols -- 5. Hannah Kilham: Gender, the Gambia, and the Politics of Language / Moira Ferguson -- 6. Feminizing the Feminine: Early Women Writers on India / Balachandra Rajan -- 7. The Necessary Orientalist? The Giaour and Nineteenth-Century Imperialist Misogyny / Joseph Lew -- 8. Versions of the East: Byron, Shelley, and the Orient / Saree Makdisi -- 9. Hemans's "Red Indians": Reading Stereotypes / Nancy Moore Goslee -- 10. Epic Ambivalence: Imperial Politics and Romantic Deflection in Williams's Peru and Landor's Gebir / Alan Richardson -- 11. Dark Characters, Native Grounds: Wordsworth's Imagination of Imperialism / Alison Hickey |
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12. "Am I Not a Woman, and a Sister?": Slavery, Romanticism, and Gender / Anne K. Mellor -- 13. Tradition and The Interesting Narrative: Capitalism, Abolition, and the Romantic Individual / Sonia Hofkosh |
| Summary |
These 13 original essays re-examine a wide selection of romantic-era writers, texts, and genres to explore the relation between romanticism as a literary field and the emergence of the second British empire during the formative period 1780-1834. Extending feminist and historicist inquiry with the insights of postcolonial critique, these essays rethink some of the pivotal concepts that have informed romantic studies, from the largely unanalyzed construction of race as a category of European political and literary culture to how the notion of the solitary imagination functions in capitalism's imperialist enterprise |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| 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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Imperialism -- History -- 18th century.
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Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.
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Imperialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Imperialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Race in literature.
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1714-1837.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056703
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| Author |
Hofkosh, Sonia.
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Richardson, Alan, 1955-
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| LC no. |
95048392 |
| ISBN |
0253332125 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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