Imperial characters
Subtitle: home and periphery in eighteenth-century literature
By: Tara Ghoshal Wallace.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewisburg, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780838757406
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; National characteristics, British, in literature; Colonies in literature; Great Britain -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Roaming the globe: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Robert Louis Stevenson's Master of Ballantrae; title: Global nationalisms: Alexander Pope's Windsor-forest and James Thomson's Seasons; title: Familial identifications: Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack and Moll Flanders and Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker; between empires: Wollstonecraft's Maria, or The wrongs of woman; title: Peripheral visions: Robert Bage's Hermsprong and Elizabeth Hamilton's Letters of a Hindoo Rajah; title: Rhetorical manipulations: Walter Scott's Guy Mannering and The surgeon's daughter.