Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter

2008
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7645-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

Reihe: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

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and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitson, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Race and Romanticism the Current Debate The Race Idea Romantic Anatomies of Race Romantic Cannibalism Eating People in the South Seas Slavery: Abolitionist Writing Romantic Sinopolitans: Travellers, Diplomats and Khans Tartars, Mongols, Manchus and Chinese

Über Autor(innen)

PETER J. KITSON is Professor of English at the University of Dundee, UK.