Technologies of empire
Subtitle: writing, imagination, and the making of imperial networks, 1750-1820
By: Dermot Ryan
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781611494488; 9781611494495
Subjects: Imperialism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Literature and technology; Literature and society; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The beauty of that arrangement": Adam Smith imagines empire; title: Edmund Burke and the regicide republic of letters; title: Writing imperial networks in Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction; title: "Another and the same": William Wordsworth's poetry and the children of empire; title: Conclusion: A future for the humanities?.