Imperial characters : home and periphery in eighteenth-century literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wallace, Tara Ghoshal, 1952-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press, [2010]
Subjects:	English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Imperialism in literature. National characteristics, British, in literature. Great Britain > In literature. Colonies in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Roaming the globe: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Robert Louis Stevenson's Master of Ballantrae
Global nationalisms: Alexander Pope's Windsor-forest and James Thomson's Seasons
Familial identifications: Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack and Moll Flanders and Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker; between empires: Wollstonecraft's Maria, or, The wrongs of woman
Peripheral visions: Robert Bage's Hermsprong and Elizabeth Hamilton's Letters of a Hindoo rajah
Rhetorical manipulations: Walter Scott's Guy Mannering and The surgeon's daughter.