• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature : Nationalism, Exoticism, Imperialism
  • Contains: Frontmatter -- -- Contents -- -- Introduction -- -- The Problem of the Discoverer's Authority in Lewis and Clark's History -- -- The Discourse of Colonial Loyalty: Mexico, 1808 -- -- Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism -- -- Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's Hellas in Context -- -- The Holy Books of Empire: Translations of the British and Foreign Bible Society -- -- For Your Eyes Only : Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son -- -- Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy of Jane Eyre -- -- Ahab's Manifest Destiny -- -- Nationalism and Exoticism: Nineteenth- Century Others in Flaubert's Salammbô and L'Education sentimentale -- -- Attending (to) the National Spectacle: Instituting National (Popular) Theater in England and France -- -- Exotic Nostalgia: Conrad and the New Imperialism -- -- Irish Primitivism and Imperial Discourse: Lady Gregory's Peasantry -- -- Contributors -- -- Index -- -- Backmatter
  • Contributor: Arac, Jonathan [Other]; Ritvo, Harriet [Other]
  • Published: Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
  • Published in: New Cultural Studies
  • Extent: 1 online resource
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.9783/9781512800371
  • ISBN: 9781512800371
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  • Keywords: Exoticism in literature ; Imperialism in literature ; Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism ; Nationalism in literature ; Romanticism ; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
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  • Footnote: In English
    Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
  • Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Problem of the Discoverer's Authority in Lewis and Clark's History -- The Discourse of Colonial Loyalty: Mexico, 1808 -- Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism -- Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's Hellas in Context -- The Holy Books of Empire: Translations of the British and Foreign Bible Society -- For Your Eyes Only : Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son -- Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy of Jane Eyre -- Ahab's Manifest Destiny -- Nationalism and Exoticism: Nineteenth- Century Others in Flaubert's Salammbô and L'Education sentimentale -- Attending (to) the National Spectacle: Instituting National (Popular) Theater in England and France -- Exotic Nostalgia: Conrad and the New Imperialism -- Irish Primitivism and Imperial Discourse: Lady Gregory's Peasantry -- Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter

    In contrast to the micropolitics of Foucault, macropolitics emphasizes that political transformations at the level of the state have great importance for many developments in nineteenth-century writing
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