03896nam 2200745Ia 450 991046261910332120211209232112.00-8122-0376-310.9783/9780812203769(CKB)2670000000418365(EBL)3442244(SSID)ssj0001053088(PQKBManifestationID)11564387(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053088(PQKBWorkID)11113442(PQKB)10183921(MiAaPQ)EBC3442244(OCoLC)859161731(MdBmJHUP)muse29220(DE-B1597)449212(OCoLC)979753836(DE-B1597)9780812203769(Au-PeEL)EBL3442244(CaPaEBR)ebr10748835(EXLCZ)99267000000041836520020117d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFair exotics[electronic resource] xenophobic subjects in English literature, 1720-1850 /Rajani SudanPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20021 online resource (208 pages)[New cultural studies]Series statement on jacket.0-8122-3656-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --1. Institutionalizing Xenophobia: Johnson's Project --2. De Quincey and the Topography of Romantic Desire --3. Mothered Identities: Facing the Nation in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft --4. Fair Exotics: Two Case Histories in Frankenstein and Villette --Afterword --Notes --Works Cited --Index --AcknowledgmentsArguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literature-inwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and texts-were forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and territories that lay uneasily beyond the national border. The urge to colonize and discover embraced both an interest in foreign "fair exotics" and a deeply rooted sense of their otherness.Fair Exotics develops a revisionist reading of the period of the British Enlightenment and Romanticism, an age during which England was most aggressively building its empire. By looking at canonical texts, including Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Johnson's Dictionary, De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and Bronte's Villette, Sudan shows how the imaginative subject is based on a sense of exoticism created by a pervasive fear of what is foreign. Indeed, as Sudan clarifies, xenophobia is the underpinning not only of nationalism and imperialism but of Romantic subjectivity as well.New Cultural StudiesEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismExoticism in literatureEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismXenophobiaGreat BritainHistory18th centuryXenophobiaGreat BritainHistory19th centuryForeign countries in literatureNoncitizens in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Exoticism in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.XenophobiaHistoryXenophobiaHistoryForeign countries in literature.Noncitizens in literature.820.9/1Sudan Rajani687925MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462619103321Fair exotics2493004UNINA