Romanticism and Colonialism: Writing and Empire, 1780 1830 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521591430)

This volume examines Romantic literary discourse in relation to colonial politics and the peoples and places with which the British were increasingly coming into contact. It investigates topics from slavery to tropical disease, religion and commodity production, in a wide range of writers from Edmund Burke to Hannah More, William Blake to Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano to Mary Shelley, Thomas Clarkson to Lord Byron. Together, the essays constitute a broad assessment of Romanticism's engagement with India, Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Middle East.

Author: Tim Fulford
ISBN-10: 0521591430
ISBN-13: 9780521591430
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/13/1998
Pages: 300
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d