Title: Macropolitics of nineteenth-century literature : nationalism, exoticism, imperialism /
Authors: Arac, Jonathan, 1945-; Ritvo, Harriet, 1946-
Publisher: Duke University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Literature, Modern History and criticism; Politics and literature.; Nationalism in literature.; Exoticism in literature.; Imperialism in literature.
Contents: Introduction / Jonathan Arac and Harriet Ritvo -- The problem of the discoverer's authority in Lewis and Clark's History / Bruce Greenfield -- The discourse of colonial loyalty: Mexico, 1808 / Nancy Vogeley -- Romancing the nation-state: the poetics of romantic nationalism / Marlon B. Ross -- Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's Hellas context / Mark Kipperman -- The holy books of empire: translations of the British and foreign Bible Society / Sue Zemka -- For your eyes only: Private property and the oriental body in Dombey and son / Jeff Nunokawa -- Colonialism and the figurative strategy of Jane Eyre / Susan Meyer -- Ahab's manifest destiny / Wai-chee Dimock -- Nationalism and exoticism: nineteenth-century others in Flaubert's Salammbô and L'education sentimentale / Lisa Lowe -- Attending (to) the national spectacle: instituting national (popular) theater in England and France / Loren Kruger -- Exotic nostalgia: Conrad and the new imperialism / Chris Bongie -- Irish primitivism and imperial discourse: Lady Gregory's peasantry / James F. Knapp.