LEADER 03926nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910787521503321 005 20220304205445.0 010 $a0-8122-0376-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203769 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418365 035 $a(EBL)3442244 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053088 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11564387 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053088 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11113442 035 $a(PQKB)10183921 035 $a(OCoLC)859161731 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29220 035 $a(DE-B1597)449212 035 $a(OCoLC)979753836 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203769 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442244 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748835 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442244 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418365 100 $a20020117d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFair exotics$b[electronic resource] $exenophobic subjects in English literature, 1720-1850 /$fRajani Sudan 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (208 pages) 225 0 $a[New cultural studies] 300 $aSeries statement on jacket. 311 0 $a0-8122-3656-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Institutionalizing Xenophobia: Johnson's Project --$t2. De Quincey and the Topography of Romantic Desire --$t3. Mothered Identities: Facing the Nation in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft --$t4. Fair Exotics: Two Case Histories in Frankenstein and Villette --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aArguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literature-inwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and texts-were forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and territories that lay uneasily beyond the national border. The urge to colonize and discover embraced both an interest in foreign "fair exotics" and a deeply rooted sense of their otherness. Fair Exotics develops a revisionist reading of the period of the British Enlightenment and Romanticism, an age during which England was most aggressively building its empire. By looking at canonical texts, including Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Johnson's Dictionary, De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and Bronte's Villette, Sudan shows how the imaginative subject is based on a sense of exoticism created by a pervasive fear of what is foreign. Indeed, as Sudan clarifies, xenophobia is the underpinning not only of nationalism and imperialism but of Romantic subjectivity as well. 410 0$aNew Cultural Studies 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExoticism in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aXenophobia$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aXenophobia$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aForeign countries in literature 606 $aNoncitizens in literature 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExoticism in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aXenophobia$xHistory 615 0$aXenophobia$xHistory 615 0$aForeign countries in literature. 615 0$aNoncitizens in literature. 676 $a820.9/1 700 $aSudan$b Rajani$0687925 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787521503321 996 $aFair exotics$93697107 997 $aUNINA