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Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Elizabeth Bohls
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Description for Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Paperback. Examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. This title explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - imaginary geography, Otherness and difference and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed our understanding of Romantic literature. Series Editor(s): Johnson, David; Loomba, Ania. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. Num Pages: 224 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight in Grams: 346. Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies. 224 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. Examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. This title explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - imaginary geography, Otherness and difference and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed our understanding of Romantic literature. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: DSBH5. Dimension: 159 x 234 x 12. Weight: 346. Series Editor(s) :Johnson, David; Loomba, Ania.
This title examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian period. Postcolonial criticism's concern with issues of geopolitics, race and gender, subalternity and exoticism shape discussions of works by major authors such as Blake, Coleridge, Percy and Mary Shelley, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries. It explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - imaginary geography, Otherness & difference and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed ... Read more
This title examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian period. Postcolonial criticism's concern with issues of geopolitics, race and gender, subalternity and exoticism shape discussions of works by major authors such as Blake, Coleridge, Percy and Mary Shelley, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries. It explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - imaginary geography, Otherness & difference and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Postcolonial Literary Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748641987
SKU
V9780748641987
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About Elizabeth Bohls
Elizabeth A. Bohls is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon.
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