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almahu_9947363459602882
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216 p. :
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ill.
ISBN:
9780230355217 :
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0230355218 :
Inhalt:
The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe, Byron's Mazeppa, and Eliot's Middlemarch, and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.
Inhalt:
'Turning to the profound but largely overlooked impact of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus on British literature and culture of the nineteenth century, The Other East compels us to consider another imaginative locus of the Empire on which the sun never set. The book's sensitive treatment of Poland and Russia as they are imagined and used in well-known and understudied works by the likes of Blake, Byron, Campbell, Coleridge, Conrad, Eliot, and Mary Shelley will have scholars and students rethinking what we thought we knew about the global perspectives and reach of this era's literature. Thomas McLean's impeccably researched, highly persuasive, and original book is at once a formidable contribution to our scholarship and a delight to read.' -- Devoney Looser, Professor of English, University of Missouri Columbia, USA.
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Epublication based on: 9780230294004.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Other East 'That Woman, Lovely Woman! May have Dominion': Catherine the Great and Poland 'A Patriot's Furrow'd Cheek': British Responses to the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising Hero Between Genres: Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw 'Transformed, not only altered': The Resurrection of Kosciuszko and the Arrival of Mazeppa Climate Change: Britain and Poland 1830-1849 Arms and the Circassian Woman Picturing Will: Middlemarch and the Victorian Genealogy of the Polish Hero Afterword: Conrad's Poles Notes Bibliography Index.
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Sprache:
Englisch
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