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Romantic imperialism : universal empire and the culture of modernity
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- Creator
- Saree Makdisi
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xv, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521584388, 0521584388, 9780521586047, 0521586046
- OCLC
- ocm36908874
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-243) and index.
- 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. Conclusions
Subjects
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Imperialism in literature.
- Literature and society -- Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
- Romanticism -- Great Britain.
- Colonies in literature.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century.