Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies
$249.02
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
3 June 2009
Summary
This book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective. It explains both pro-imperialist themes and attitudes in works by major Victorian authors, and also points of resistance to and criticisms of the Empire such as abolitionism, as well as the first stirrings of nationalism in India and elsewhere.Using nineteenth-century literary works as illustrations, it analyzes several major debates, central to imperial and postcol…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780748633036 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0748633030 |
| Author: | Patrick Brantlinger |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
| Series: | Postcolonial Literary Studies |
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With clarity and economy, a broad vista of political, socio-cultural and geographical factors are viewed, combining perspectives on the imperial source material with the critiques offered by postcolonial reassessments – aesthetic and ethical. Brantlinger’s longstanding scholarly expertise in this area is adroitly condensed into a mere 180 pages … this concise yet considerable scope is the work’s strength and should see it become a necessary guide to an almost unmanageably complex area. * Routledge ABES *
Begins with a wide-ranging, elegantly syynthesised, and historically nuanced overview of the multifarious impact of Empire on nineteenth-century, literature, historiography and cultural commentary. … Sure to invite scholars to engage .. and further develop these vital and unfinished areas of research. – Anita Rupprecht, University of Brighton * Wasafiri *
About The Author
Patrick Brantlinger
Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English and Victorian Studies (Emeritus) at Indiana University. He is the author or editor of 13 books including Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1900 (Cornell University Press, 1988), Dark Vanishings: Nineteenth-Century Discourse about the Extinction of Primitive Races (Cornell University Press, 2003), and The Blackwell Companion to the Victorian Novel (Blackwell Publishers, 2002), edited with William Thesing.
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