Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity
Saree Makdisi
The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernization in the period, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with, and contested in, Romanticism, through original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley and Scott.
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Année:
1998
Editeur::
Cambridge University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
266
ISBN 10:
0521586046
ISBN 13:
9780521586047
Collection:
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Fichier:
PDF, 893 KB
IPFS:
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english, 1998