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Before the Empire of English: Literature, Provinciality, and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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Before the Empire of English: Literature, Provinciality, and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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"Before the Empire of English" offers a broad re-examination of
eighteenth-century British literary culture, centered around issues
of language, nationalism, and provinciality. It revises our
tendency to take for granted the metropolitan centrality of
English-language writers of this period and shows, instead, how
deeply these writers were conscious of the inherited marginality of
their literary tradition in the European world of culture. The book
focuses attention on crucial but largely overlooked aspects of
eighteenth-century English literary culture: the progress of
English topos since the death of Cowley and the cultural
aspirations and anxieties it condenses; the concept of the republic
of letters and its implications for issues of cultural centrality
and provinciality; and the importance of cultural nationalist
emphases in "Augustan" poetics in the context of these concerns
about provinciality. The book examines imperial aspirations and
imaginings in the English literary culture of the period, but it
shows how such aspirations are responses to provincial anxieties
more so than they are marks of imperial self-assurance. In doing
so, the book offers a way of understanding the resonances between
the cultural politics of the postcolonial world and those of the
earlier history of the English tradition itself.
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