The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Theory
| Author: | T. McLean | ISBN: | 9780230355217 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | November 30, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | T. McLean |
| ISBN: | 9780230355217 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | November 30, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.
The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.
