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Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism
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Paperback. Editor(s): Arac, Jonathan; Ritvo, Harriet. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
Increasingly in the last decade, macropolitics—a consideration of political transformations at the level of the state—has become a focus for cultural inquiry. From the macropolitical perspective afforded by contemporary postcolonial studies, the essays in this collection explore the relationship between politics and culture by examining developments in a wide range of nineteenth-century writing.
The dozen essays gathered here span the entire era of colonization and discuss the British Isles, Europe, the United States, India, the Caribbean, and Africa. Addressing the works of Wordsworth, Shelley, Dickens, Melville, Flaubert, Conrad, and Charlotte Brontë, as well as explorers’ reports, Bible translations, popular ... Read more
Increasingly in the last decade, macropolitics—a consideration of political transformations at the level of the state—has become a focus for cultural inquiry. From the macropolitical perspective afforded by contemporary postcolonial studies, the essays in this collection explore the relationship between politics and culture by examining developments in a wide range of nineteenth-century writing.
The dozen essays gathered here span the entire era of colonization and discuss the British Isles, Europe, the United States, India, the Caribbean, and Africa. Addressing the works of Wordsworth, Shelley, Dickens, Melville, Flaubert, Conrad, and Charlotte Brontë, as well as explorers’ reports, Bible translations, popular ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
New Americanists
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822316121
SKU
V9780822316121
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About Arac
Jonathan Arac is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Commissioned Spirits and Critical Genealogies. Harriet Ritvo is Professor of History at MIT. She is the author of The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age.
Reviews for Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature: Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism
"Well-edited, responsible, theoretically sophisticated, and politically engaged."—Nancy Paxton, Northern Arizona University