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Eighteenth-century British literature and postcolonial studies /

"This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable pastimes, and the burgeoning of print cult...

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Основен автор: Kaul, Suvir.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ℗♭2009.
Серия: Postcolonial literary studies.
Предмети:
1700-1799
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Postcolonialism.
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Eighteenth-century British literature and postcolonial studies.
Съдържание:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Series Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgments viii Timeline x Introduction: 'Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature'
  • Postcolonial Studies and Empire Today
  • Nation-formation and Empire in the Eighteenth Century
  • Territory, Trade Routes, War and 'Great Britain'
  • Print and Public Culture
  • Literary Creativity, Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism
  • Plan of the Book
  • 1 'Theatres of Empire'
  • Davenant, the Revival of Performance, and the Thematics of Empire
  • Aphra Behn, Colonial Self-making, and the Uncertain Consolations of Romance
  • Civil Tragedy, Commercial Humanism, and Colonial Consciousness
  • 2 'The Expanding Frontiers of Prose'
  • Yariko and Inkle and the Staging of Polite Culture
  • Crusoe the Merchant-adventurer
  • and Friday
  • 3 'Imaginative Writing, Intellectual History, and the Horizons of British Literary Culture'
  • The Spectator, Print Culture, and the Circulation of International Value
  • The Languages of National Difference: Becoming Roderick Random
  • Luxury, Commercial Society, Enlightenment Historiography
  • 4 'Perspectives from Elsewhere'
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Turkish Embassy Letters
  • Johnson's Rasselas: Philosophy in an 'Oriental' Key
  • Phillis Wheatley: Literacy, Poetry, and Slavery
  • Ukawsaw Gronniosaw: Writing in Another Voice
  • Conclusion: 'Gazing into the Future'
  • Literary Transport: to India and the South Seas
  • Bibliography
  • Further Reading
  • Index.

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