Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Download or Read eBook Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies PDF written by Elizabeth A Bohls and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Elizabeth A Bohls |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-01-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780748678747 |
ISBN-13 | : 0748678743 |
Rating | : 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies by : Elizabeth A Bohls
Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian period. Postcolonial criticism's concern with issues of geopolitics, race and gender, subalternity and exoticism shape discussions of works by major authors such as Blake, Coleridge, both Shelleys, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries.