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Colonial Narratives/Cultural Dialoguesby Jyotsna Singh
Routledge 1996; US$ 37.95Using Shakespeare as a case in point, this book shows how the study of English Literature was implicated in the ideology of the empires in colonies such as India. The author argues that these studies promote western culture. more...
Other Empireby Filiz Turhan
Routledge 2003; US$ 111.00This study provides copious historical context for the role the Ottoman Empire played in the development of imperial discourses in a time when the colonial holdings of Great Britain increased exponentially. more...
Civility, Literature and Culture in British Indiaby Anindyo Roy
Routledge 2004; US$ 110.00This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British Colonial Literature and Culture. more...
Language and Conquest in Early Modern Irelandby Patricia Palmer
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 33.00The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland sparked off two linguistic events: it initiated the language shift from Irish to English, which constitutes the great drama of Irish cultural history, and it marked the beginnings of English linguistic expansion. Palmer explores the role of language in shaping colonial ideology and English identity. more...
Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticismby Gregory Dart; Marilyn Butler; James Chandler
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00This book re-examines Rousseau's influence on the French Revolution and on English Romanticism, through his confessional writings and political theory, and their mediation in the speeches and actions of Robespierre. Gregory Dart shows how the writings of Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth and Hazlitt engage with the Jacobin tradition after the Terror. more...
Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empireby Paula M. Krebs; Gillian Beer
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 36.00This book examines the impact of ideas of race and gender on imperialism through various forms of discourse surrounding the Boer War of 1899-1902: from the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling to newspapers, propaganda, and other forms of debate in print. more...
Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violenceby Laura E. Franey
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 120.00Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travellers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. more...
Romanticism and Warby J.R. Watson
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 130.00This volume is a study of war and the perceptions of war. It deals specifically with the British Romantic period writers who lived through the Napoleonic wars, and the way in which those wars affected the writing of Scott, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and many of their contemporaries. more...
British Romanticism and Continental Influencesby Peter Mortensen
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 95.00During the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being "inundated" by pernicious literary translations imported from the European continent. Mortensen discusses Romantic writers' complex and ambivalent responses to this threatening literary invasion. more...
British Women Writers and the French Revolutionby Adriana Craciun
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 90.00British Women Writers and the French Revolution provides an overview of a wide range of British women's writings on the French Revolution, from writers sympathetic to the Revolution like Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, and Charlotte Smith, to antirevolutionary writers like Hannah More and Jane West. more...