Before the Empire of English offers a broad re-examination of Eighteenth-century British literary culture, centred around issues of language, nationalism, and provinciality. It revises our tendency to take for granted the metropolitan centrality of English-language writers of this period and shows, instead, how deeply these writers were conscious of the traditional marginality of their literary tradition in the European world of culture. The book focuses attention on crucial but largely overlooked aspects of Eighteenth-century English literary culture: the progress of English topos since the...
Before the Empire of English offers a broad re-examination of Eighteenth-century British literary culture, centred around issues of language, national...
"The Empire of English" offers a broad re-examination of eighteenth-century British literary culture, centered around issues of language, nationalism, and provinciality.
"The Empire of English" offers a broad re-examination of eighteenth-century British literary culture, centered around issues of language, nationalism,...
