Fair Exotics : Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185 /
Sudan, Rajani
Fair Exotics : Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185 / Rajani Sudan. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - New Cultural Studies .
Frontmatter -- 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
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812236569 9780812203769
10.9783/9780812203769 doi
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Exoticism in literature.
Xenophobia--History--18th century.--Great Britain
Xenophobia--History--19th century.--Great Britain
Xenophobia--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Cultural Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cultural Studies. Literature.
820.9/1
Fair Exotics : Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185 / Rajani Sudan. - 1 online resource (208 p.) - New Cultural Studies .
Frontmatter -- 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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780812236569 9780812203769
10.9783/9780812203769 doi
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Exoticism in literature.
Xenophobia--History--18th century.--Great Britain
Xenophobia--History--19th century.--Great Britain
Xenophobia--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Cultural Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Cultural Studies. Literature.
820.9/1