James Watt

British Orientalisms, 1759-1835

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the complex relationship between British literature and culture, and the East in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In doing so it illuminates the larger cultural conflict which animated a nation debating with itself about its place in the world and relation to its others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 441g
• ISBN-13: 9781108460101
• ISBN-10: 1108460100
• Artikelnr.: 66223684

Autorenporträt

James Watt is a former Director of the University of York's interdisciplinary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. His previous publications include Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre, and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832 (Cambridge, 1999), and an edition of Clara Reeve's The Old English Baron (2003). He has published numerous essays and articles in edited collections and in journals including Eighteenth Century Life and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Britain, Empire, and 'openness' to the East
1. 'Those islanders': British orientalisms and the Seven Years' War
2. 'Indian details': fictions of British India, 1774-1789
3. 'All Asia is covered in prisons': oriental despotism and British liberty in an age of revolutions
4. 'In love with the Gopia': Sir William Jones and his contemporaries
5. 'Imperial dotage' and poetic ornament in romantic orientalist verse narrative
6. Cockney translation: Leigh Hunt and Charles Lamb's eastern imaginings
7. 'It is otherwise in Asia': 'character' and improvement in picaresque fiction
Conclusion: British orientalisms, Empire, and improvement
Bibliography
Index.