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Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1834
author
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Richardson, Alan
publisher
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Indiana University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0585001286
print isbn13
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9780255552127
ebook isbn13
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9780585001289
language
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English
subject
English literature--19th century--History and criticism, Imperialism--History--19th century, English literature--18th century--History and criticism, Imperialism--History--18th century, Romanticism--Great Britain, Imperialism in literature, Colonies in li
publication date
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1996
lcc
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PR457.R6447 1996eb
ddc
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820.9/358
subject
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English literature--19th century--History and criticism, Imperialism--History--19th century, English literature--18th century--History and criticism, Imperialism--History--18th century, Romanticism--Great Britain, Imperialism in literature, Colonies in li
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Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 17801834
Edited by ALAN RICHARDSON
SONIA HOFKOSH
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis
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1996 by Indiana University Press
All rights reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Romanticism, race, and imperial culture, 17801834 / edited by Alan Richardson and Sonia Hofkosh; contributors, Laura Doyle [et al]. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-253-33212-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. English literature19th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. ImperialismGreat BritainHistory19th century. 3. English literature18th centuryHistory and criticism. 4. Imperialism Great BritainHistory18th century. 5. RomanticismGreat Britain 6. Imperialism in literature. 7. Colonies in literature. 8. Race in literature. I. Richardson, Alan, date. II. Hofkosh, Sonia. III. Doyle, Laura. PR457.R6447 1996 820.9'358dc20 95-48392 1 2 3 4 5 01 00 99 98 97 96
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction
1
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8. Versions of the East: Byron, Shelley, and the Orient
SAREE MAKDISI
203
9. Hemans's "Red Indians": Reading Stereotypes
NANCY MOORE GOSLEE
237
III. Resituating Romanticism
10. Epic Ambivalence: Imperial Politics and Romantic Deflection in Williams's Peru and Landor's Gebir
ALAN RICHARDSON
265
11. Dark Characters, Native Grounds: Wordsworth's Imagination of Imperialism
ALISON HICKEY
283
12. "Am I Not a Woman, and a Sister?": Slavery, Romanticism, and Gender
ANNE K. MELLOR
311
13. Tradition and The Interesting Narrative: Capitalism, Abolition, and the Romantic Individual
SONIA HOFKOSH
330
Contributors
345
Index
347
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Acknowledgments
We wish to thank Robert Sloan, our editor at Indiana University Press, for his encouragement and advice as we began this project and for the confidence and support that made its completion possible. We also thank Cindy Ballard, Terry L. Cagle, and John Vollmer for their careful work on the production and editing of the volume. Our greatest single debt is to Marlon Ross for his painstaking and revelatory reading of the manuscript, a reading as generous as it was rigorous. Finally, we thank Deborah Blacker and Jonathon Hulbert for their support at every stage of our work together.
Alan Richardson Sonia Hofkosh
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Introduction
WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE'S avant-garde Lyrical Ballads of 1798 is rarely thought of in relation to European imperialism, despite the lines on the Spanish "discovery" and penetration of the Americas in "The Foster-Mother's Tale," the depictions of British colonial wars and their consequences in "The Female Vagrant" and "The Mad Mother," or the ethnographic exoticism of ''The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman." Opening the volume, "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" would have given its early readers a strong intimation of the collaboration's engagement with Britain's global ambitions and anxieties, telling (in the words of the "Argument") how a "Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell."1 With the voyages of Captains Byron and Cookand also Blighstill very much on the British public mind, the fortunes of the fleet under Nelson (which would in 1798 shatter Napoleon's Oriental ambitions at Aboukir) a daily concern, and continuing British domination of the transatlantic slave trade a festering barb in the national conscience, the trans-global drama of guilt and retribution that Coleridge sets in uncharted seas could hardly have failed to touch on public preoccupations with Britain's imperial destiny and fears that London might inexorably go the way of Rome. And yet few poems have been so relentlessly psychologized as "The Ancyent Marinere." Elaborated in terms of the artistic imagination, private psychological guilt, the col-
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