Imperial affliction: eighteenth-century british poets and their twentieth-century lives
Auteur :
Simmons, Thomas
Éditeur :
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN :
9781433108723
Date de publication :
30 avr. 2010
Dimensions :
23,0 x 16,0 cm
Poids :
410 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
In many ways, Robert J C Young writes, colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction. This title examines some ways in which Young's observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain.