The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature [electronic resource] : Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire /
McLean, T.author.
The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Other East; Imagining other communities; Overview; 1 'That Woman, Lovely Woman! May Have Dominion': Catherine the Great and Poland; Importing Enlightenment; Imperial desires; Russian harpies, Polish prey; Europe in 1794; 2 'A Patriot's Furrow'd Cheek': British Responses to the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising; The Romantic revolutionary; Coleridge and the tropes of defeat; Revolution in recline; Bidding hope farewell; Conclusion; 3 Hero between Genres: Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw; From Tadeusz to Thaddeus
Romancing historyThaddeus of London; A biographical epilogue; 4 'Transform'd, Not Inly Alter'd': The Resurrection of Kosciuszko and the Arrival of Mazeppa; Poland in the presses; Sonnet wars: Hunt, Wordsworth, Keats; Late returns: Landor and Byron; 5 Climate Change: Britain and Poland, 1830-49; Polar shifts; Tennyson and Poland; William Aytoun's 'Poland': 1832-49; A musical epilogue; 6 Arms and the Circassian Woman; Imagining Circassia; Circassia's Irish voice; 'The Star of Attéghéi'; 7 Picturing Will: Middlemarch and the Victorian Genealogy of the Polish Hero; A family resemblance
Will's father figuresThe radical romantic in Middlemarch; Forward to the past; Afterword: Conrad's Poles; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
European literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
European Literature.