Increasingly in the last decade, macropolitics--a consideration of
political transformations at the level of the state--has become a
focus for cultural inquiry. From the macropolitical perspective
afforded by contemporary postcolonial studies, the essays in this
collection explore the relationship between politics and culture by
examining developments in a wide range of nineteenth-century
writing.
The dozen essays gathered here span the entire era of colonization
and discuss the British Isles, Europe, the United States, India,
the Caribbean, and Africa. Addressing the works of Wordsworth,
Shelley, Dickens, Melville, Flaubert, Conrad, and Charlotte Bronte,
as well as explorers' reports, Bible translations, popular theater,
and folklore, the contributors consider such topics as the
political function of aesthetic containment, the redefinitions of
nationality under the pressure of imperial ambition, and the
coexistence of imperial and revolutionary tendencies. New
historical data and new interpretive perspectives alter our
conception of established masterpieces and provoke new
understandings of the political and cultural context within which
these works emerged. This anthology demonstrates that the
macropolitical concept of imperialism can provide a new
understanding of nineteenth-century cultural production by
integrating into a single process the well-established topics of
nationalism and exoticism.
First published in 1991 (University of Pennsylvania Press),
Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature is now available in
paperback. Offering agenda-setting essays in cultural and Victorian
studies, it will be of interest to students and scholars of British
and American literature, literary theory, and colonial and
postcolonial studies.Contributors. Jonathan Arac, Chris Bongie,
Wai-chee Dimock, Bruce Greenfield, Mark Kipperman, James F. Knapp,
Loren Kruger, Lisa Lowe, Susan Meyer, Jeff Nunokawa, Harriet Ritvo,
Marlon B. Ross, Nancy Vogeley, Sue Zemka
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