The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire
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.
Keywords
Literary CriticismEuropeanModern19th CenturySemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsAnthropologyCultural & Social
2011Book
Author(s)Thomas McLean
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780230294004
LanguageEnglish
