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The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique

Autor C. Hawes
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 oct 2005
The British Eighteenth Century and the Postcolonial Moment challenges reigning clichés about 'modernity'. It intervenes in debates within current literary theory by means of a close engagement with texts from the British eighteenth-century, viewing the latter as a resource for the contemporary postcolonial future. Indeed, rather than 'applying' postcolonial theory to eighteenth-century texts, the book instead refines postcolonial theory by using such eighteenth-century authors as Swift, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and Equiano. The book will interest eighteenth-century scholars, historians of the Enlightenment, scholars of postcolonial fiction, and literary historians following in the wake of Michel Foucault and Edward Said.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403968166
ISBN-10: 1403968160
Pagini: 257
Ilustrații: XIX, 257 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:2005
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Preface: From Crux to Critique PART I: CANNIBALIZING HISTORY: THE PROBLEM OF METALEPSIS The Global Making of the British Eighteenth Century When Fingal Lived and Ossian Sang: Eighteenth-Century Origins PART II: GLOBAL PALIMPSESTS: POSTCOLONIAL AFFILIATIONS Leading History by the Nose: Reading Origins in Laurence Sterne and Salman Rushdie Imperial Blues: Reading Nation and Empire in John Gay and Wole Soyinka Rutherford's Travels: The Palimpsest of Culture in Charles Johnson's Middle Passage PART III: IMMANENT CRITIQUE: THE BRITISH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AS RESOURCE Swift's Immanent Critique of Colonial Modernity Johnson's Immanent Critique of Imperial Nationalism Epilogue: Toward a Critical Reappropriation of Modernity

Recenzii

"Hawes' study on the eighteenth century as a seed-bed of modernity is a well-researched, erudite study which is of value not only to those who are students of the eighteenth century, but also those who have long been immersed in the study of that time will find an interesting new twist on some of the established texts which might make them think anew about a time they thought they knew so well." - ECCB"Hawes's book, however, is a valuable assesment of how the topoi of race, ethnicity, class, and nationality were internal, not created by, Enlightenment discourse, suggesting that 'the oppositional themes of our own moment replay a great many eighteenth-century debates.' By doing so, it makes a good case for the postcolonial re-readings of the era and its art." - 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

Notă biografică

CLEMENT HAWES is Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, USA.