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Fair Exotics

Rajani Sudan

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  • 208 sidor
  • 2002
Arguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literatureinwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and textswere forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and territories that lay uneasily beyond the national border. The urge to colonize and discover embraced both an interest in foreign "fair exotics" and a deeply rooted sense of their otherness. Fair Exotics develops a revisionist reading of the period of the British Enlightenment and Romanticism, an age during which England was most aggressively building its empire. By looking at canonical texts, including Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Johnson's Dictionary, De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and Bronte's Villette, Sudan shows how the imaginative subject is based on a sense of exoticism created by a pervasive fear of what is foreign. Indeed, as Sudan clarifies, xenophobia is the underpinning not only of nationalism and imperialism but of Romantic subjectivity as well.
  • Författare: Rajani Sudan
  • Illustratör: black & white illustrations
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780812236569
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 208
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2002-07-01
  • Förlag: University of Pennsylvania Press