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Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter / by P. Kitson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kitson, P., Author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters, 2634-5218
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- European literature.
- Literature, Modern--19th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature, Modern--18th century.
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- European Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Eighteenth-Century Literature.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- European Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Eighteenth-Century Literature.
- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- In a fresh investigation of primary sources and original readings, Kitson traces the origins of contemporary ideas about race though a variety of late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Race Idea and the Romantics: Coleridge and De Quincey; 2 Romantic Anatomies of Race: The New Comparative Anatomy and the Case of Victor Frankenstein; 3 "Candid Reflections:" The Idea of Race in the Debate over the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 4 Romanticism, Race, and Cannibalism in the "South Seas"; 5 Romantic Sinopolitans: Natural Philosophers, Travelers, Diplomats, and Missionaries; 6 Tartars, Monguls, Manchus, and Chinese; Notes
- BibliographyIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137109200
- 1137109203
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