Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature

by Tara Ghoshal Wallace

During the long eighteenth century, Britain won and lost an empire in North America while consolidating its hegemony on the Indian subcontinent. The idea of imperial Britain became an essential piece of national self-definition, so that to be British was to be a citizen of an imperial power. The British literary imagination inevitably participated in the formulation and interrogation of this new national character, examining in fiction empire's effects...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611483352
• ISBN13: 9781611483352
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 244 Pages