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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Well-edited, responsible, theoretically sophisticated, and politically engaged."—Nancy Paxton, Northern Arizona University
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Jonathan Arac and Harriet Ritvo 1
The Problem of the Discoverer's Authority in Lewis and Clark's
History / Bruce Greenfield 12
The Discourse of Colonial Loyalty: Mexico, 1808 / Nancy Vogeley 37
Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism / Marlon B. Ross 56
Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's
Hellas in Context / Mark Kipperman 86
The Holy Books of Empire: Translations of the British and Foreign Bible Society / Sue Zemka 102
For Your Eyes Only: Private Property and the Oriental Body in
Dombey and Son / Jeff Nunokawa 138
Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy in
Jane Eyre / Susan Meyer 159
Ahab's Manifest Destiny / Wai-chee Dimock 184
Nationalism and Exoticism: Nineteenth-Century Others in Flaubert's
Salammbô and
L'Education sentimentale / Lisa Lowe 213
Attending (to) the National Spectacle: Instituting National (Popular) Theater in England and France / Loren Kruger 243
Exotic Nostalgia: Conrad and the New Imperialism / Christ Bongie 268
Irish Primitivism and Imperial Discourse: Lady Gregory's Peasantry / James F. Knapp 286
Contributors 303
Index 305