Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies / / Elizabeth Bohls.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Bohls, Elizabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies : PLS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 6 B/W illustrations

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

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Timeline -- Introduction: Romantic Literature from the Margins -- 1. Romantic Geographies -- 2. Slavery and the Romantic Imagination -- 3. Scottish Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies -- 4. Romantic Orientalisms -- Coda: Romantic Readers and Writers, Selves and Others -- Bibliography -- Index