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Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel
Engelsk Hardback
Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel
Engelsk Hardback

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Brokering Culture in Britain''s Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American “romancers” and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain’s diffused, tenuous, and often accidental authority. Salyer argues that this cultural experience, more than what Lukács had in mind when he wrote of a mass historical consciousness after Napoleon, gave rise to the Romantic historiographical approach of writers such as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Brockden Brown and Frederick Marryat. This book traces the conversion of the eighteenth-century imperial speaker into the nineteenth-century “romance” hero through a number of proto-novelistic responses to the problem of Imperial history, including Edmund Burke in the Annual Register and the celebrated court case of James Annesley, among others. The author argues that popular Romantic novels such as Scott’s Waverley and Cooper’s The Pioneers convert the problem of narrating the political geographies of eighteenth-century Empire into a discourse of history, placing the historical realities of negotiating Imperial authority at the heart of a nineteenth-century project that fictionalized the possibilities and limits of political historical agency in the modern nation state.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781498562904
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1498562906
Udg. Dato:
15 jul 2020
Længde:
25mm
Bredde:
160mm
Højde:
246mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
15 jul 2020
Forfatter(e):
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