Romantic literature, race, and colonial encounter

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Romantic literature, race, and colonial encounter

Peter J. Kitson

(Nineteenth-century major lives and letters)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-255) and index

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In a fresh investigation of primary sources and original readings, Kitson traces the origins of contemporary ideas about race though a variety of late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history.

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Race and Romanticism the Current Debate The Race Idea Romantic Anatomies of Race Romantic Cannibalism Eating People in the South Seas Slavery: Abolitionist Writing Romantic Sinopolitans: Travellers, Diplomats and Khans Tartars, Mongols, Manchus and Chinese

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