| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 188 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Postcolonial literary studies
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Postcolonial literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-184) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgments viii Timeline x Introduction: 'Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature' -- Postcolonial Studies and Empire Today -- Nation-formation and Empire in the Eighteenth Century -- Territory, Trade Routes, War and 'Great Britain' -- Print and Public Culture -- Literary Creativity, Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism -- Plan of the Book -- 1 'Theatres of Empire' -- Davenant, the Revival of Performance, and the Thematics of Empire -- Aphra Behn, Colonial Self-making, and the Uncertain Consolations of Romance -- Civil Tragedy, Commercial Humanism, and Colonial Consciousness -- 2 'The Expanding Frontiers of Prose' -- Yariko and Inkle and the Staging of Polite Culture -- Crusoe the Merchant-adventurer -- and Friday -- 3 'Imaginative Writing, Intellectual History, and the Horizons of British Literary Culture' -- The Spectator, Print Culture, and the Circulation of International Value -- The Languages of National Difference: Becoming Roderick Random -- Luxury, Commercial Society, Enlightenment Historiography -- 4 'Perspectives from Elsewhere' -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Turkish Embassy Letters -- Johnson's Rasselas: Philosophy in an 'Oriental' Key -- Phillis Wheatley: Literacy, Poetry, and Slavery -- Ukawsaw Gronniosaw: Writing in Another Voice -- Conclusion: 'Gazing into the Future' -- Literary Transport: to India and the South Seas -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index. |
| Summary |
"This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable pastimes, and the burgeoning of print culture all stand revealed as intimately bound to portents of plantation insurgency, agitation for abolition, and the vast fortunes produced by the labouring bodies of the poor, the colonized, and the enslaved. Eighteenth-century studies has never appeared in a more engaged and fascinating light." |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Postcolonialism.
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Postcolonialism. |
| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kaul, Suvir. Eighteenth-century British literature and postcolonial studies. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 9780748634545 0748634541 (OCoLC)286519996 |
| ISBN |
9780748634569 (electronic book) |
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0748634568 (electronic book) |
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9780748634545 |
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0748634541 |
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9780748634552 |
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074863455X |
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