Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
|
Buy Now
Eighteenth-century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Paperback)
Loot Price: R945
Discovery Miles 9 450
|
|
Eighteenth-century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Paperback)
Series: Postcolonial Literary Studies
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
'This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short
historical memory of most postcolonial work and the
all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period
specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses
and fashionable pastimes, and the burgeoning of print culture all
stand revealed as intimately bound to portents of plantation
insurgency, agitation for abolition, and the vast fortunes produced
by the labouring bodies of the poor, the colonized, and the
enslaved. Eighteenth-century studies has never appeared in a more
engaged and fascinating light.' Professor Donna Landry, University
of Kent In this volume Suvir Kaul addresses the relations between
literary culture, English commercial and colonial expansion, and
the making of 'Great Britain' in the late seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. He argues that literary writing played a
crucial role in generating the vocabulary of British nationalism,
both in inter-national terms and in attempts to realign political
and cultural relations between England, Scotland, and Ireland. The
formal innovations and practices characteristic of
eighteenth-century English literature were often responses to the
worlds brought into view by travel writers, merchants, and
colonists. Writers (even those suspicious of mercantile and
colonial expansion) worked with a growing sense of a 'national
literature' whose achievements would provide the cultural capital
adequate to global imperial power, and would distinguish Great
Britain for its twin success in 'arms and arts'. The book ranges
from Davenant's theatre to Smollet's Roderick Random to Phillis
Wheatley's poetry to trace the impact of empire on literary
creativity. Key Features *An introduction to the impact of
mercantilism and empire on the crafting of eighteenth-century
British literature *Encourages students to examine the key formal
innovations that define eighteenth-century British literary history
as they were produced by writers who redefined their sense of home,
nation and the world
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.