Romantic literature, race, and colonial encounter
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Romantic literature, race, and colonial encounter
(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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Description
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and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history.
Table of Contents
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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