Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies / / Suvir Kaul.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kaul, Suvir,
• MitwirkendeR: Johnson, David,; Loomba, Ania,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies : PLS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

'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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Timeline
• Introduction: ‘Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature’
• 1. ‘Theatres of Empire’
• 2. ‘The Expanding Frontiers of Prose’
• 3. ‘Imaginative Writing, Intellectual History, and the Horizons of British Literary Culture’
• 4. ‘Perspectives from Elsewhere’
• Conclusion: ‘Gazing into the Future’
• Bibliography
• Further Reading
• Index