ISBN:
9780511549779
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 248 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism 27
Parallel Title:
Print version
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Makdisi, Saree, 1964 - Romantic imperialism
DDC:
820.9/007
Keywords:
Literature and society
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Modernism (Literature)
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Romanticism
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Colonies in literature
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Imperialism in literature
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English literature History and criticism 19th century
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English literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism
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Imperialism in literature
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Literature and society ; Great Britain
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Modernism (Literature) ; Great Britain
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Romanticism ; Great Britain
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Colonies in literature
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Great Britain ; Colonies ; History ; 19th century
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Great Britain ; Colonies ; History ; 18th century
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Great Britain Colonies 19th century
;
History
;
Great Britain Colonies 18th century
;
History
;
Englisch
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Literatur
;
Romantik
;
Imperialismus
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Geschichte 1790-1830
Abstract:
The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over a hundred and fifty million people brought under British imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernisation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with and contested in Romanticism. Saree Makdisi argues that this process has to be understood in global terms, beyond the British and European viewpoint, and that developments in India, Africa, and the Arab world (up to and including our own time) enable us to understand more fully the texts and contexts of British Romanticism. New and original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Scott emerge in the course of this searching analysis of the cultural process of globalisation. Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1998
Abstract:
Introduction: Universal Empire -- Home imperial: Wordsworth's London and the spot of time -- Wordsworth and the image of Nature -- Waverley and the cultural politics of dispossession -- Domesticating exoticism: transformations of Britain's Orient, 1785-1835 -- Beyond the realm of dreams: Bryon, Shelley, and the East -- William Blake and the Universal Empire -- Conclusions
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511549779
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