Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)

This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment to postcolonial theory itself, it develops an account of the textual and philosophical interpenetration of postcolonial aesthetics with Romantic ideas about sense, history and world. What emerges is a reading of Romantic/postcolonial co-involvement that moves beyond well-worn models of intercanonical antagonism and the historicizing biases of conventional literary history. Caught somewhere between the effects of reanimation and estrangement, Romanticism appears here not as a stable textual repository prior to the postcolonial, but as echo, spectre, self-interruption, or vital force, that can yet only emerge in the guise of the afterlife, its agency mediated - but never exhausted - by postcolonial writing.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	February 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Philip Dickinson
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	200
Edition:	1st ed. 2018
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-70340-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	3-319-70340-4
Barcode:	9783319703404

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