Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity

ISBN-13: 9780521586047 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 268 str.

Saree Makdisi; James Chandler; Marilyn Butler

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'Makdisi's timely study offers a powerfully lucid theoretical strategy for placing Romanticism within the frame of imperialism.' Romanticism

Spis treści

Preface and acknowledgements; 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. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography.