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Imperial Characters
Tara Ghoshal Wallace
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Description for Imperial Characters
Hardback. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
During the long eighteenth century, Britain won and lost an empire in North America while consolidating its hegemony on the Indian subcontinent. The idea of imperial Britain became an essential piece of national self-definition, so that to be British was to be a citizen of an imperial power. The British literary imagination inevitably participated in the formulation and interrogation of this new national character, examining in fiction empire's effects on the world at home. Imperial Characters traces a range of literary articulations of how British national character is formed, changed, and distorted by the imperial project. Tara Wallace argues that ... Read more
During the long eighteenth century, Britain won and lost an empire in North America while consolidating its hegemony on the Indian subcontinent. The idea of imperial Britain became an essential piece of national self-definition, so that to be British was to be a citizen of an imperial power. The British literary imagination inevitably participated in the formulation and interrogation of this new national character, examining in fiction empire's effects on the world at home. Imperial Characters traces a range of literary articulations of how British national character is formed, changed, and distorted by the imperial project. Tara Wallace argues that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483352
SKU
V9781611483352
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About Tara Ghoshal Wallace
Tara Ghoshal Wallace is professor of English at The George Washington University, where she also serves as associate dean for Graduate Studies in Arts and Sciences.
Reviews for Imperial Characters
Tara Ghoshal Wallace’s Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature succeeds with a preponderance of selective but finely-faceted and typically historicized close readings of English and Scottish literature, especially novels. In addition to offering such attentive exfoliation of primary material, the book stimulates the reader with some unexpected pairings and an innovative structure.... Imperial Characters remains freshly relevant and ... Read more