Name: Imperial Affliction: Eighteenth-Century British Poets and Their Twentieth-Century Lives
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Author: Zamora, Maria C. ; Simmons, Thomas
ISBN: 9781433108723

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Imperial Affliction: Eighteenth-Century British Poets and Their Twentieth-Century Lives

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Physical Book

Author

Thomas Simmons

Illustrated by

Maria C. Zamora

Publisher

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi

Language

English

Pages

182

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

9781433108723

ISBN13

9781433108723

Synopsis "Imperial Affliction: Eighteenth-Century British Poets and Their Twentieth-Century Lives"

In many ways , Robert J.C. Young writes, colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction. Imperial Affliction examines some ways in which Young's observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain. How might these seeds of destruction manifest themselves as problems of identity? How might the very selves with greatest access to self-affirmation - the idea of the empire, the idea of British citizenry, the idea of the British self - actually find themselves vulnerable, confused, or damaged? Using multiple forms of postcolonial critique, this book turns back to salient eighteenth-century British lives and work for a different kind of enlightenment. Among its central subjects are the elusive subjectivity of William Collins; the exilic religious experience of William Cowper and its multiple readings in the twentieth century by a self-fashioned exilic, Donald Davie; the missed encounter between Christopher Smart and Samuel Johnson, and the ways in which that problem was re-inscribed in the work of W. Jackson Bate and Lionel Trilling; the problem of imperial fixity in James Cook's journals with a view to Gray's Elegy and Goldsmith's Deserted Village ; and the problem of purity as a paradoxically privileged and exilic force in the work of John Newton and Christopher Smart. In these explorations, this book illustrates both an expanded view of eighteenth-century colonial liabilities and a new emphasis on postcolonial critique as a means of exploring the fissures always present in imperial ambition.

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