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British Orientalisms, 1759-1835 (Hardcover)
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British Orientalisms, 1759-1835 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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How did Britons understand their relationship with the East in the
late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? James Watt's new
study remaps the literary history of British Orientalisms between
1759, the 'year of victories' in the Seven Years' War, and 1835,
when T. B. Macaulay published his polemical 'Minute on Indian
Education'. It explores the impact of the war on Britons' cultural
horizons, and the different and shifting ways in which Britons
conceived of themselves and their nation as 'open' to the East
across this period. Considering the emergence of new forms and
styles of writing in the context of an age of empire and
revolution, Watt examines how the familiar 'Eastern' fictions of
the past were adapted, reworked, and reacted against. In doing so
he illuminates the larger cultural conflict which animated a nation
debating with itself about its place in the world and relation to
its others.
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