{"product_id":"colonialism-race-and-the-french-romantic-imagination-9780415994675","title":"Colonialism Race and the French Romantic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. It studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novelsthat is, novels by French authors such as Victor Hugo, George Sand, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, François René de Chateaubriand, Claire de Duras, and Prosper Mériméecomprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans. While the primary texts that come under investigation in the book are novels, close attention is paid to Romantic fiction's interdependence with naturalist treatises, travel writing, abolitionist texts, and ethnographies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eColonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the first books to carry out a sustained and comprehensive analysis of the French Romantic novel's racial imagination that encompasses several sites of colonial contact: the Indian Ocean, North America, th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Translations, Pratima Prasad; Introduction, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 1 The White Native, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 2 The Métis, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 3 The Disciplined Savage, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 4 The Black Aristocrat, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 5 The Rebellious Slave, Pratima Prasad; Chapter 102 Epilogue, Pratima Prasad;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018220863831,"sku":"9780415994675","price":137.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415994675.jpg?v=1750776067","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colonialism-race-and-the-french-romantic-imagination-9780415994675","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}