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The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique
Clement Hawes
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Description for The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique
Hardcover. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; DSA; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
The British Eighteenth Century and the Postcolonial Moment challenges reigning clichés about 'modernity'. It intervenes in debates within current literary theory by means of a close engagement with texts from the British eighteenth-century, viewing the latter as a resource for the contemporary postcolonial future. Indeed, rather than 'applying' postcolonial theory to eighteenth-century texts, the book instead refines postcolonial theory by using such eighteenth-century authors as Swift, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and Equiano. The book will interest eighteenth-century scholars, historians of the Enlightenment, scholars of postcolonial fiction, and literary historians following in the wake of Michel Foucault and Edward Said.
The British Eighteenth Century and the Postcolonial Moment challenges reigning clichés about 'modernity'. It intervenes in debates within current literary theory by means of a close engagement with texts from the British eighteenth-century, viewing the latter as a resource for the contemporary postcolonial future. Indeed, rather than 'applying' postcolonial theory to eighteenth-century texts, the book instead refines postcolonial theory by using such eighteenth-century authors as Swift, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and Equiano. The book will interest eighteenth-century scholars, historians of the Enlightenment, scholars of postcolonial fiction, and literary historians following in the wake of Michel Foucault and Edward Said.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403968166
SKU
V9781403968166
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About Clement Hawes
CLEMENT HAWES is Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Reviews for The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique
"Hawes' study on the eighteenth century as a seed-bed of modernity is a well-researched, erudite study which is of value not only to those who are students of the eighteenth century, but also those who have long been immersed in the study of that time will find an interesting new twist on some of the established texts which might make ... Read more