Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies

by Elizabeth A. Bohls

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, Percy and Mary Shelley,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074864198X
• ISBN13: 9780748641987
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.2"