Ireland, India, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Literature
In this innovative study Julia M. Wright addresses rarely asked questions: how and why does one colonized nation write about another? Wright focuses on the way nineteenth-century Irish writers wrote about India, showing how their own experience of colonial subjection and unfulfilled national aspirations informed their work. Their writings express sympathy with the colonised or oppressed people of India in order to unsettle nineteenth-century imperialist stereotypes, and demonstrate their own opposition to the idea and reality of empire. Drawing on Enlightenment philosophy, studies of nationalism, and postcolonial theory, Wright examines ficti…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-521-86822-8
- EAN: 9780521868228
- Produktnummer: 2565804
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.1 cm 593 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 593
Über den Autor
Julia M. Wright is Professor of English at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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