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Author Bohls, Elizabeth A., author.

Title Romantic literature and postcolonial studies / Elizabeth Bohls
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages) : illustrations
Series Postcolonial literary studies
Postcolonial literary studies.
Contents Introduction: Romantic literature from the margins -- Romantic geographies -- Slavery and the romantic imagination -- Scottish romantic literature and post colonial studies -- Romantic orientalisms -- Coda: Romantic readers and writers, selves and others
Summary 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, both Shelleys, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries. Key Features Explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - its analyses of imaginary geography, the construction of otherness or difference, and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed our understanding of Romantic literature Provides accessible yet sophisticated in-depth analyses of selected texts, in a range of genres, whose interpretation is illuminated by postcolonial criticism Includes a bibliographical essay along with up-to-date bibliography of criticism, editions of primary works, and selected historical materials
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-197) and index
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Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Romanticism -- Great Britain
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
Postcolonialism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Middle Eastern.
English literature
Postcolonialism in literature
Postcolonialism
Romanticism
Englisch
Literatur
Romantik
Kolonialismus
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748678747
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