This book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and
contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in
which metropolitan Romantic novels that is, novels by French
authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de
Saint-Pierre, Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, Claire de Duras, and
Prosper Merimee comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion
French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the
encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. While the primary
texts that come under investigation in the book are novels, close
attention is paid to Romantic fiction s interdependence with
naturalist treatises, travel writing, abolitionist texts, and
ethnographies.
Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination is one of
the first books to carry out a sustained and comprehensive analysis
of the French Romantic novel s racial imagination that encompasses
several sites of colonial contact: the Indian Ocean, North America,
the Caribbean, West Africa, and France. Its archival research and
interdisciplinary approach shed new light on canonical texts and
expose the reader to non-canonical ones. The book will be useful to
students and academics involved with Romanticism, colonial
historians, students and scholars of transatlantic studies and
postcolonial studies, as well as those interested in questions of
race and colonialism."
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