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Exotic Nostalgia: Conrad and the New Imperialism

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Introduction 1
  4. The Problem of the Discoverer's Authority in Lewis and Clark's History 12
  5. The Discourse of Colonial Loyalty: Mexico, 1808 37
  6. Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism 56
  7. Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's Hellas in Context 86
  8. The Holy Books of Empire: Translations of the British and Foreign Bible Society 102
  9. For Your Eyes Only : Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son 138
  10. Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy of Jane Eyre 159
  11. Ahab's Manifest Destiny 184
  12. Nationalism and Exoticism: Nineteenth- Century Others in Flaubert's Salammbô and L'Education sentimentale 213
  13. Attending (to) the National Spectacle: Instituting National (Popular) Theater in England and France 243
  14. Exotic Nostalgia: Conrad and the New Imperialism 268
  15. Irish Primitivism and Imperial Discourse: Lady Gregory's Peasantry 286
  16. Contributors 303
  17. Index 305
  18. Backmatter 310
Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature
This chapter is in the book Macropolitics of Nineteenth-Century Literature
https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512800371-012

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Introduction 1
  4. The Problem of the Discoverer's Authority in Lewis and Clark's History 12
  5. The Discourse of Colonial Loyalty: Mexico, 1808 37
  6. Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism 56
  7. Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's Hellas in Context 86
  8. The Holy Books of Empire: Translations of the British and Foreign Bible Society 102
  9. For Your Eyes Only : Private Property and the Oriental Body in Dombey and Son 138
  10. Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy of Jane Eyre 159
  11. Ahab's Manifest Destiny 184
  12. Nationalism and Exoticism: Nineteenth- Century Others in Flaubert's Salammbô and L'Education sentimentale 213
  13. Attending (to) the National Spectacle: Instituting National (Popular) Theater in England and France 243
  14. Exotic Nostalgia: Conrad and the New Imperialism 268
  15. Irish Primitivism and Imperial Discourse: Lady Gregory's Peasantry 286
  16. Contributors 303
  17. Index 305
  18. Backmatter 310
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