| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) |
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Routledge studies in romanticism ; 14 |
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Routledge studies in romanticism ; 14.
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| Contents |
Chapter Introduction: Shaping the Colonial Subject in the Romantic Age -- chapter 1 The White Native Insularity, "Indigenism," and Incest: the Paradoxes of Paul et Virginie -- chapter 2 The Métis Plotting Colonial Intimacies: The Miscegenated Subjects of the Romantic Novel -- chapter 3 The Disciplined Savage Old Losses, New Constructs: Chateaubriand and the Reinvention of the American Indian -- chapter 4 The Black Aristocrat Ourika, or, Comment peut-on être noire? -- chapter 5 The Rebellious Slave Black Spartacus: Colonial Revolt and Romantic Masculinities |
| Summary |
This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. Prasad's study is one of the first to carry out a sustained and comprehensive analysis of the French Romantic novel?s racial imagination that encompasses several sites of colonial contact: the Indian Ocean, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, and France. Its archiva |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Colonies in literature.
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Race in literature.
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Romanticism -- France
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Colonies in literature
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French fiction
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Race in literature
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Romanticism
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Rasse Motiv
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Literatur
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Kolonialismus Motiv
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France
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Französisch.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780415994675 |
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0415994675 |
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9780203878507 |
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0203878507 |
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