Fair exotics : xenophobic subjects in English literature, 1720-1850 / / Rajani Sudan

• Autore: Sudan Rajani
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Disciplina: 820.9/1
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 18th century - History and criticism; Exoticism in literature; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Xenophobia - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Xenophobia - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Foreign countries in literature; Aliens in literature
• Note generali: Series statement on jacket.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-188) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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 -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Arguing 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Fair exotics
• ISBN: 0-8122-0376-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812238903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Cultural Studies