Fair Exotics : : Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185 / / Rajani Sudan.

Arguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literature-inwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and texts-were forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and ter...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2002
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:New Cultural Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Institutionalizing Xenophobia: Johnson's Project
  • 2. De Quincey and the Topography of Romantic Desire
  • 3. Mothered Identities: Facing the Nation in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft
  • 4. Fair Exotics: Two Case Histories in Frankenstein and Villette
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments