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Author:

Wallace, Tara Ghoshal, 1952-

Title:

Imperial characters : home and periphery in eighteenth-century literature / Tara Ghoshal Wallace.

Publisher:

Bucknell University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

244 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism
Imperialism in literature
National characteristics, British, in literature
Great Britain--In literature.
Colonies in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction. Roaming the globe: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Robert Louis Stevenson's Master of Ballantrae -- Global nationalisms: Alexander Pope's Windsor-forest and James Thomson's Seasons -- Familial identifications: Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack and Moll Flanders and Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker; between empires: Wollstonecraft's Maria, or, The wrongs of woman -- Peripheral visions: Robert Bage's Hermsprong and Elizabeth Hamilton's Letters of a Hindoo rajah -- Rhetorical manipulations: Walter Scott's Guy Mannering and The surgeon's daughter.

ISBN:

0838757405 (alk. paper)
9780838757406 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)449283984

LCCN:

2009039929

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)