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

Author
Wallace, Tara Ghoshal, 1952- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, c2010.
Description
244 p. ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Series
Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture [More in this series]
Bibliographic references
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
  • 9780838757406 (alk. paper)
  • 0838757405 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2009039929
OCLC
449283984
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