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1 online resource (205 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in Romanticism |
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Routledge studies in romanticism.
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| Contents |
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Note on Translations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Shaping the Colonial Subject in the Romantic Age -- 1 The White Native: Insularity, "Indigenism," and Incest: the Paradoxes of Paul et Virginie -- 2 The Métis: Plotting Colonial Intimacies: the Miscegenated Subjects of the Romantic Novel -- 3 The Disciplined Savage: Old Losses, New Constructs: Chateaubriand and the Reinvention of the American Indian -- 4 The Black Aristocrat: Ourika, or, Comment peut-on être noire? -- 5 The Rebellious Slave: Black Spartacus: Colonial Revolt and Romantic Masculinities -- Epilogue: The Legacy of Romantic Colonialism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. Prasad's study is one of the first to carry out a sustained and comprehensive analysis of the French Romantic novels racial imagination that encompasses several sites of colonial contact: the Indian Ocean, North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, and France. Its archiva |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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French fiction.
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Literature.
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Colonies in literature.
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French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Race in literature.
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Romanticism -- France
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Literature
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Romanticism
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Colonies in literature
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French fiction
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Literature
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Race in literature
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203878507 |
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0203878507 |
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