Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850 - Rilegato

Sudan, Rajani

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ISBN 10: 0812236564 ISBN 13: 9780812236569

Casa editrice: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 2002

Riassunto

Arguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literature—inwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and texts—were forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and territories that lay uneasily beyond the national border. The urge to colonize and discover embraced both an interest in foreign "fair exotics" and a deeply rooted sense of their otherness.

Fair Exotics develops a revisionist reading of the period of the British Enlightenment and Romanticism, an age during which England was most aggressively building its empire. By looking at canonical texts, including Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Johnson's Dictionary, De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and Bronte's Villette, Sudan shows how the imaginative subject is based on a sense of exoticism created by a pervasive fear of what is foreign. Indeed, as Sudan clarifies, xenophobia is the underpinning not only of nationalism and imperialism but of Romantic subjectivity as well.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Rajani Sudan is Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0812236564
• ISBN 13: 9780812236569
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 200
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