The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature : Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire

Mclean, Thomas

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 203 p.／サイズ 10 b/w photos.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230294004
• DDC分類 820.9007

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Other East 'That Woman, Lovely Woman! May have Dominion': Catherine the Great and Poland  'A Patriot's Furrow'd Cheek': British Responses to the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising  Hero Between Genres: Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw 'Transformed, not only altered': The Resurrection of Kosciuszko and the Arrival of Mazeppa Climate Change: Britain and Poland 1830-1849  Arms and the Circassian Woman  Picturing Will: Middlemarch and the Victorian Genealogy of the Polish Hero Afterword: Conrad's Poles Notes Bibliography Index