Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature : : Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism / / Harriet Ritvo, Jonathan Arac.

In contrast to the micropolitics of Foucault, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in nineteenth-century writing.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1991
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:New Cultural Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (314 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Introduction --
The Problem of the Discoverer's Authority in Lewis and Clark's History --
The Discourse of Colonial Loyalty: Mexico, 1808 --
Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism --
Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's Hellas in Context --
The Holy Books of Empire: Translations of the British and Foreign Bible Society --
For Your Eyes Only : Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son --
Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy of Jane Eyre --
Ahab's Manifest Destiny --
Nationalism and Exoticism: Nineteenth- Century Others in Flaubert's Salammbô and L'Education sentimentale --
Attending (to) the National Spectacle: Instituting National (Popular) Theater in England and France --
Exotic Nostalgia: Conrad and the New Imperialism --
Irish Primitivism and Imperial Discourse: Lady Gregory's Peasantry --
Contributors --
Index --
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Summary:In contrast to the micropolitics of Foucault, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in nineteenth-century writing.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781512800371
9783110442526
DOI:10.9783/9781512800371
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Harriet Ritvo, Jonathan Arac.