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Imperial characters : home and periphery in eighteenth-century literature / Tara Ghoshal Wallace.
Van Pelt Library PR448.I52 W36 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Tara Ghoshal, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Imperialism in literature.
- National characteristics, British, in literature.
- Great Britain--In literature.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 244 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, [2010]
- Contents:
- Introduction. Roaming the globe: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Robert Louis Stevenson's Master of Ballantrae
- Global nationalisms: Alexander Pope's Windsor-forest and James Thomson's Seasons
- Familial identifications: Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack and Moll Flanders and Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker; between empires: Wollstonecraft's Maria, or, The wrongs of woman
- Peripheral visions: Robert Bage's Hermsprong and Elizabeth Hamilton's Letters of a Hindoo rajah
- Rhetorical manipulations: Walter Scott's Guy Mannering and The surgeon's daughter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780838757406
- 0838757405
- OCLC:
- 449283984
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