Romanticism, race, and imperial culture, 1780-1834
By: edited by Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh.
Contributors: Richardson, Alan, 1955-; Hofkosh, Sonia.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Imperialism -- History -- 19th century; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Imperialism -- History -- 18th century; Romanticism -- Great Britain; Imperialism in literature; Colonies in literature; Race in literature; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1714-1837
Description: These 13 original essays re-examine a wide selection of romantic-era writers, texts, and genres to explore the relation between romanticism as a literary field and the emergence of the second British empire during the formative period 1780-1834.

Extending feminist and historicist inquiry with the insights of postcolonial critique, these essays rethink some of the pivotal concepts that have informed romantic studies, from the largely unanalyzed construction of race as a category of European political and literary culture to how the notion of the solitary imagination functions in capitalism's imperialist enterprise.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.