Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies

by Elizabeth A Bohls

Overview

This book examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire. Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian period. Postcolonial criticism's concern with issues of geopolitics, race and gender, subalternity and exoticism shape discussions of works by major authors such as Blake, Coleridge, both Shelleys, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748641987
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	01/22/2013
Series:	Postcolonial Literary Studies
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Bohls is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon

Table of Contents

Illustrations vi

Series Editors' Preface vii

Acknowledgements viii

Timeline ix

Introduction: Romantic Literature from the Margins 1

1 Romantic Geographies 15

2 Slavery and the Romantic Imagination 49

3 Scottish Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies 88

4 Romantic Orientalisms 127

Coda: Romantic Readers and Writers, Selves and Others 166

Bibliography 179

Index 198

Editorial Reviews

[A] very worthy, lucid analysis of how colonial and sub-imperialized relationships were configured and represented (or refracted) in various texts of the Romantic era in Britain.
— Bruce Harding, Ngai Tahu Research Centre, University of Canterbury for Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50:4

Bohls provides a thorough, accessible, and up-to-date account of this field. Her book will be of enormous value to students and scholars wishing to get a sense of how empire and colonialism have impacted on Romantic period writing as well as bringing more established scholars up to speed in areas of Romantic postcolonial criticism they may not be familiar with.
— Peter J. Kitson, University of East Anglia for Romanticism, Vol 22, No3

From the Publisher

Bohls provides a thorough, accessible, and up-to-date account of this field. Her book will be of enormous value to students and scholars wishing to get a sense of how empire and colonialism have impacted on Romantic period writing as well as bringing more established scholars up to speed in areas of Romantic postcolonial criticism they may not be familiar with.

Romanticism, Vol 22, No3 - Peter J. Kitson

...offers highly useful material for students embarking on the study of both Romantic and postcolonial literatures. [Is] also an indispensible part of the library of scholars with a serious intent on understanding the complexities of the empire from which much Romantic literature sprang.

The BARS Review

[A] very worthy, lucid analysis of how colonial and sub-imperialized relationships were configured and represented (or refracted) in various texts of the Romantic era in Britain.

Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50:4 - Bruce Harding