Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Kitson
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Kitson P
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| Titolo: |
Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter [[electronic resource] /] / by P. Kitson
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| 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and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history.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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters