Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
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Romanticism
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- ISBN 9780748641994
- Weight: 473g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jan 2013
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Demonstrates the importance of postcolonial approaches to understanding the literature of the period 1787-1833
Arguing that literature of the Romantic period must be understood in the context of British colonial expansion and imperial rule, this text surveys Romantic literature’s role in consolidating Britain as the centre of empire. It highlights the ways in which the expanding print market served readers eager to learn about the wider world: Romantic poetry and travel writing, for example, went hand in hand. Elizabeth Bohls shows that while Exoticism and Orientalism help us understand colonial discourses and imperial ideologies, texts not overtly concerned with the exotic, like Wordsworth’s and Austen’s, also engage the historical problematic of empire.
Key Features
Covers travel writing, slave narratives, political prose as well as novels & poetry
Reads canonical materials (Coleridge, Austen, Scott, Shelley, etc.) in new ways
Wide coverage: the Romantic Geographies chapter treats travel in the Pacific, Canada/North America, the Caribbean, Africa and India, while the Romantic Orientalism chapter treats writings on India
Elizabeth A. Bohls, Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon, is the author of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 (CUP, 1995; paperback, 2004) and articles on travel, aesthetics, gender, colonialism and slavery. She co-edited the anthology Travel Writing 1700-1830 (OUP, 2005)and is completing Captive Spaces: The Politics of Place in the British Caribbean 1772-1833.
