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Brings powerful work in Romantic aesthetic criticism to bear on postcolonial writing and criticism
Revisits foundational questions in postcolonial literary studies
Offers illuminating readings of widely read postcolonial literary and theoretical texts
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
What emerges is a reading of Romantic/postcolonial co-involvement that moves beyond well-worn models of intercanonical antagonism and the historicizing biases of conventional literary history. Caught somewhere between the effects of reanimation and estrangement, Romanticism appears here not as a stable textual repository prior to the postcolonial, but as echo, spectre, self-interruption, or vital force, that can yet only emerge in the guise of the afterlife, its agency mediated — but never exhausted — by postcolonial writing.
Reviews
“In Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing, Philip Dickinson seeks to understand how, and why, a certain “institution of feeling” comes into being within British Romanticism, persists as an afterlife within the intertextual contact zone, takes up occupation within an oppositional imagination, and in the process enables other, and paradoxically new, ways of voicing postcolonialism’s perseverate call for meaningful social change. The radical heterogeneity of postcolonial writing will never submit to definitional singularity. But this monograph demonstrates just how literary criticism that brings precision to that heterogeneity can still have sweep.” (Stephen Slemon, University of Alberta, Canada)
Authors and Affiliations
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Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Philip Dickinson
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing
Authors: Philip Dickinson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70341-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70340-4Published: 20 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88923-8Published: 06 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70341-1Published: 08 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 200
Topics: Postcolonial/World Literature, Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature