Before the empire of English : literature, provinciality, and nationalism in eighteenth-century Britain /

Before the empire of English : literature, provinciality, and nationalism in eighteenth-century Britain / Alok Yadav.

"Most English literary criticism assumes that its object achieved a metropolitan status well before it actually did: in fact, English-language writers had to negotiate a long, slow, and self-doubting rise out of provincial subordination. Before the Empire of English shows that English-language...

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Main Author: Yadav, Alok.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, British, in literature.
Nationalism and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English literature > European influences.
Nationalism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Great Britain > Civilization > European influences.
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
Great Britain > Relations > Europe.
Europe > Relations > Great Britain.

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Call Number: PR448.N38 Y33 2004
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