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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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Backmatter