Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies write by Suvir Kaul. This book was released on 2009-02-25. Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. '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 KentIn 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
The Postcolonial Enlightenment
The Postcolonial Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postcolonial Enlightenment write by Daniel Carey. This book was released on 2009-02-26. The Postcolonial Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations.
The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique
The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique write by Clement Hawes. This book was released on 2005-10-07. The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Clement Hawes intervenes in debates within current literary theory by means of a close engagement with texts from the British eighteenth century, viewing the latter as a resource for the contemporary postcolonial future. Indeed, rather than applying postcolonial theory to eighteenth-century texts, the book instead refines postcolonial theory by using such eighteenth-century authors as Swift, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and Equiano.
Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies write by Elizabeth A Bohls. This book was released on 2013-01-22. Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the relationship between Romantic writing and the rapidly expanding British Empire.
Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century
Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century write by Pamela J. Albert. This book was released on 2017-07-12. Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century cultural artifacts through the lens of creative works produced by contemporary writers Beryl Gilroy (Guyana), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and David Dabydeen (Guyana). While early studies of post-colonization literature focused on how revisions of historical works "write back" to the British empire, this study argues that trans-historical, cross-cultural dialogues also reveal the global complexity of eighteenth-century cultural forms (i.e. the periodical essay, travel narrative, pantomime, satirical engraving, and slave narrative). By transforming the generic form of their eighteenth-century sources, the African and Caribbean writers in this study strategically call attention to the modes of storytelling utilized by eighteenth-century writers Richard Steele, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, William Hogarth, Isaac Bickerstaff, and Ignatius Sancho, and subsequently expose how the encounters, exchanges, and acts of resistance taking place around the world influenced aesthetic experimentation in England. Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century is thus a reconsideration of eighteenth-century literature, art, and drama. However, because these engagements with British literature, art, and drama concurrently reflect twentieth-century encounters with neocolonial oppression, political violence, and racism, this study also proposes that engagements with the British eighteenth century double as inquiries into whether the modern world has progressed since the eighteenth century.
