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Eighteenth-Century British Literature And Postcolonial Studies

by Suvir Kaul
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780748634552
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Edinburgh UP
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: USD 34.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 318 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies Suvir Kaul 'Introducing for the first time the preoccupations of Postcolonial studies in dialogue with a revisionist literary history of eighteenth-century Britain, this book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all-too-insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable pastimes, and the burgeoning of print culture all stand revealed as intimately bound to portents of plantation insurgency, agitation for abolition, and the vast fortunes produced by the labouring bodies of the poor, the colonized, and the enslaved. Eighteenth-century studies has never appeared in a more engaged and fascinating light.' - Donna Landry, Professor of English and American Literature, University of Kent This book argues that eighteenth-century British writing must be analysed in relation to Britain's mercantile and territorial expansion. Great Britain was forged in battle against European competitors and resistant native populations overseas, and literary writing, as well as travelogues, newspapers, and periodicals confirmed that British readers lived in a world being reshaped by the experience of overseas travel, trade, and settlement. Plays, novels and poems are analysed in order to demonstrate how innovations in literary form and genre were driven by the imaginative need to manage the challenging experiences of the Empire. The book also argues that postcolonial modes of cultural analysis are best suited to produce literary histories adequate to the world-creating ambition of British writers in this period. Suvir Kaul is A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kaul, Suvir: - Suvir Kaul is A. M. Rosenthal Professor and Chair of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Poems of Nation, Anthems of Empire: English Verse in the Long Eighteenth Century (Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 2000; Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001), and of Thomas Gray and Literary Authority: Ideology and Poetics in Eighteenth-Century England (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992). He also writes on South Asia and postcolonial theory and has edited The Partitions of Memory: the afterlife of the division of India (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001; London: C. Hurst, 2001; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002) and co-edited (with Ania Loomba, Antoinette Burton, Matti Bunzl and Jed Esty), Postcolonial Studies and Beyond (Durham, Duke University Press, 2005).

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