Eighteenth-century British literature and postcolonial studies / Suvir Kaul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaul, Suvir.

Series:

Postcolonial literary studies.

Postcolonial literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable pastimes, and the burgeoning of print culture all stand revealed as intimately bound to portents of plantation insurgency, agitation for abolition, and the vast fortunes produced by the labouring bodies of the poor, the colonized, and the enslaved. Eighteenth-century studies has never appeared in a more engaged and fascinating light.'

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Timeline; Introduction 'Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature'; Chapter 1 'Theatres of Empire'; Chapter 2 'The Expanding Frontiers of Prose'; Chapter 3 'Imaginative Writing, Intellectual History, and the Horizons of British Literary Culture'; Chapter 4 'Perspectives from Elsewhere'; Conclusion 'Gazing into the Future'; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-184) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-08801-7

9786612088018

0-7486-3456-8

OCLC:

367654445