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"Well-edited, responsible, theoretically sophisticated, and politically engaged."—Nancy Paxton, Northern Arizona University

Table of Contents
Introduction / 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

Macropolitics of NineteenthCentury Literature

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/01/1995
      ISBN13: 9780822316121, 978-0822316121
      ISBN10: 0822316129

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Well-edited, responsible, theoretically sophisticated, and politically engaged."—Nancy Paxton, Northern Arizona University

      Table of Contents
      Introduction / 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

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