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Romantic literature and postcolonial studies
This book 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, both Shelleys, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries.
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Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
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.
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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 literatureProvides accessible yet sophisticated in-depth analyses of selected texts, in a range of genres, whose interpretation is illuminated by postcolonial criticismIncludes a bibliographical essay along with up-to-date bibliography of criticism, editions of primary works, and selected historical materials
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Slavery and the politics of place : representing the colonial Caribbean, 1770-1833
Analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travelers.
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John Marrant's Nova Scotia Journal Writes Displaced Communities
John Marrant was a Methodist missionary in Nova Scotia from 1785 to 1789, serving Black Loyalist refugees settled there by the British Empire after its North American defeat. His journal, published in 1790, records numerous occasions when he preached, as well as helping settlers petition the colonial government for supplies. Scholars have explored Marrant's theology as revealed in the Journal. I shift the focus toward communalism, examining the ways it incorporates traces of communities of displaced people in two genres: the extempore sermon and the petition. Each bridges the oral and the written and is grounded in a community or collectivity. Marrant noted his hearers' responses to his sermons in a shorthand, which I examine; I also draw from a published sermon he preached in Boston on his way back to England. Lacking the Nova Scotia petitions, I turn to surviving petitions by Black Loyalists who traveled to Sierra Leone, as well as Marrant's descriptions of his interactions with the petitioning Nova Scotia settlers.
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Going Places: Traveling Women Claim Cultural Authority
A review of Katrina O'Loughlin, Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century
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Breaking the Frame
Marshall's book considers cases of aesthetic experience embedded in, rather than detached from, everyday life: texts that blur the boundaries between art and nature, life, or reality, including novels by Rousseau, Henry Mackenzie, Charlotte Lennox and Jane Austen. Other chapters treat theoretical work on aesthetics, including theories of the picturesque and ut pictura poesis and Hume's standard of taste. This collection of case studies offers a rewarding approach to the problem of aesthetic experience in eighteenth-century fiction
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Slavery and the Romantic Imagination
When Jane Austen’s Sir Thomas Bertram reluctantly leaves his comfortable country estate to tend to his plantations in the Caribbean, his absence initiates the novel’s main action. It is no accident that this particular colony intrudes in a novel of domestic femaleBildung. For the British Empire in Austen’s day, the West Indies were no mere periphery: they drove imperial prosperity. The Bertrams’ financial well-being depends – like real Britons’, from peers to merchants and manufacturers, to the owners of ships and shops – on captive labour by enslaved Africans in the faraway tropics. What may seem incidental inMansfield Parktakes
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Romantic Orientalisms
Well before the Romantic era, British writers found it worth their while to mine exotic romances from the East. The Frenchman Antoine Galland started the fashion for such literary Orientalism withMille et une nuit(1704–17), translated from Arabic and Englished by 1706 asThe Thousand and One Nights. Its popularity brought plenty of imitations to Britain’s expanding print market: Turkish, Persian, Chinese, ‘Mogul’ and ‘Tartarian’ tales. British and French authors used Eastern tales as vehicles for social, political and philosophical comment, from Voltaire and Montesquieu to Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson (Richardson 2002: 4–5). But Britain’s commercial
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