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082			_a820.935809033 _bBOH/R
100			_aBohls, Elizabeth A.
245			_aRomantic literature and postcolonial studies
260			_aEdinburgh _bEdinburgh University Press _c2013
300			_aix,206p.
520			_aThis 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. Key Features: -Explains how key theoretical concerns of postcolonial studies - its analyses of imaginary geography, the construction of otherness or difference, and cultural hybridity - have dramatically changed our understanding of Romantic literature -Provides accessible yet sophisticated in-depth analyses of selected texts, in a range of genres, whose interpretation is illuminated by postcolonial criticism -Includes a bibliographical essay along with up-to-date bibliography of criticism, editions of primary works, and selected historical materials
650			_aPostcolonialism
650			_aRomanticism
650			_aGreat Britain
650			_aEnglish literature
650			_aPostcolonialism in literature
942			_cBK
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