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Author Makdisi, Saree.

Title Romantic imperialism : universal empire and the culture of modernity / Saree Makdisi
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998

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Description xv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 27
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 27
Contents 1. Introduction: Universal Empire -- 2. Home imperial: Wordsworth's London and the spot of time -- 3. Wordsworth and the image of Nature -- 4. Waverley and the cultural politics of dispossession -- 5. Domesticating exoticism: transformations of Britain's Orient, 1785-1835 -- 6. Beyond the realm of dreams: Byron, Shelley, and the East -- 7. William Blake and the Universal Empire -- 8. Conclusions
Summary The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over a hundred and fifty million people brought under British imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernisation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with and contested in Romanticism. Saree Makdisi argues that this process has to be understood in global terms, beyond the British and European viewpoint, and that developments in India, Africa, and the Arab world (up to and including our own time) enable us to understand more fully the texts and contexts of British Romanticism. New and original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Scott emerge in the course of this searching analysis of the cultural process of globalisation. Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1998
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-243) and index
Notes English
Subject Colonies in literature.
English literature -- Great Britain -- History and criticism -- 19th century.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature -- Great Britain.
Imperialism in literature.
Literature and society -- Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100238
United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100239
LC no. 97020599
ISBN 0521584388 (hardback)
0521586046 (paperback)
ABBREV TI Romantic Imperialism
Other Titles Cambridge Studies in Romanticism no. 27