Saree Makdisi

Romantic Imperialism

Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity
Herausgeber: Butler, Marilyn; Chandler, James

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control. One of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production announced a new world of possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernization in the period. Includes original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Scott.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521586047
• ISBN-10: 0521586046
• Artikelnr.: 22022477

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction: universal empire
2. Home imperial: Wordsworth's London and the spot of time
3. Wordsworth and the image of nature
4. Waverley and the cultural politics of dispossession
5. Domesticating exoticism: transformations of Britain's Orient, 1785-1835
6. Beyond the realm of dreams: Byron, Shelley and the East
7. William Blake and the universal empire
8. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography.