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Romantic literature and postcolonial studies / Elizabeth A. Bohls.
LIBRA PR447 .B64 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bohls, Elizabeth A.
- Series:
- Postcolonial literary studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Postcolonialism.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Postcolonialism--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Postcolonialism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
- Summary:
- Arguing that literature of the Romantic period must be understood in the context of British colonial expansion and imperial rule, this text surveys Romantic literature's role in consolidating Britain as the centre of empire. It highlights the ways in which the expanding print market served readers eager to learn about the wider world: Romantic poetry and travel writing, for example, went hand in hand. Elizabeth Bohls shows that while Exoticism and Orientalism help us understand colonial discourses and imperial ideologies, texts not overtly concerned with the exotic, like Wordsworth's and Austen's, also engage the historical problematic of empire.
- Covers travel writing, slave narratives, political prose as well as novels and poetry
- Reads canonical materials (Coleridge, Austen, Scott, Shelley, etc.) in new ways
- Wide coverage: the Romantic Geographies chapter treats travel in the Pacific, Canada/North America, the Caribbean, Africa and India, while the Romantic Orientalism chapter treats writings on India Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Romantic Geographies 15
- 2 Slavery and the Romantic Imagination 49
- 3 Scottish Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies 88
- 4 Romantic Orientalisms 127.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-197) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780748641987
- 074864198X
- 9780748641994
- 0748641998
- OCLC:
- 820779663
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