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Title: Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Condition: New
Author: Elizabeth A Bohls
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 074864198X
EAN: 9780748641987
ISBN: 9780748641987
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 01/22/2013
Description: Examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British EmpireLiterature 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.Key Features:Explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - imaginary geography, Otherness & difference and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed our understanding of Romantic literatureDemonstrates how selected texts, in a range of genres, are illuminated by postcolonial criticismIncludes a bibliographical essay along with an up-to-date bibliography of criticism, editions of primary works and selected historical materials
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 344g
Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies
Release Year: 2013

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