Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Elizabeth Bohls

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Elizabeth Bohls

In the series Postcolonial Literary Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748678747

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About this book

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.

Key Features

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 literature
Provides accessible yet sophisticated in-depth analyses of selected texts, in a range of genres, whose interpretation is illuminated by postcolonial criticism
Includes a bibliographical essay along with up-to-date bibliography of criticism, editions of primary works, and selected historical materials

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Series Editors’ Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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Introduction: Romantic Literature from the Margins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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2. Slavery and the Romantic Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
3. Scottish Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
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Coda: Romantic Readers and Writers, Selves and Others Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: 6 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: January 22, 2013
ISBN: 9780748678747