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Autore: | Kitson P |
Titolo: | Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Kitson |
Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2007. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Disciplina: | 809 |
Soggetto topico: | Literature—Philosophy |
Culture—Study and teaching | |
British literature | |
Literature, Modern—19th century | |
Literature, Modern—18th century | |
Literature, Modern | |
Literary Theory | |
Cultural Theory | |
British and Irish Literature | |
Nineteenth-Century Literature | |
Eighteenth-Century Literature | |
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Colonies History 18th century |
Great Britain Colonies History 19th century | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Race Idea and the Romantics: Coleridge and De Quincey; 2 Romantic Anatomies of Race: The New Comparative Anatomy and the Case of Victor Frankenstein; 3 "Candid Reflections:" The Idea of Race in the Debate over the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries; 4 Romanticism, Race, and Cannibalism in the "South Seas"; 5 Romantic Sinopolitans: Natural Philosophers, Travelers, Diplomats, and Missionaries; 6 Tartars, Monguls, Manchus, and Chinese; Notes |
BibliographyIndex | |
Sommario/riassunto: | In a fresh investigation of primary sources and original readings, Kitson traces the origins of contemporary ideas about race though a variety of late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter |
ISBN: | 1-137-10920-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910798122303321 |
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