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 | | Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Saree Makdisi ISBN-10: 9780521584388 ISBN-10: 0-521-58438-8 ISBN-13: 9780521584388 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-58438-8 Hardcover 1998-05-13 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernization in the period, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with, and contested in, Romanticism, through original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley and Scott. | ||
Book Description The years between 1790 and 1830 saw over 150 million people brought under British Imperial control, and one of the most momentous outbursts of British literary and artistic production, announcing a new world of social and individual traumas and possibilities. This book traces the emergence of new forms of imperialism and capitalism as part of a culture of modernisation in the period, and looks at the ways in which they were identified with, and contested in, Romanticism, through original readings of texts by Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Shelley and Scott. | ||
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A CLASSIC Saree Makdisi is indeed one of the most influential voices of 21st Century cultural-political discourse. His essay on the Universal Empire is a masterpiece. | ||
Brilliant words An immensely useful book by a brilliant and independent writer. To understand Makdisi is to understand what is most importantly going on in today's cultural-political discourse. | ||
Romantic imp-pearls When you actually penetrate the rosy jargon, you find no real meaning, just empty pearls. The chapters spin by based on Wordsworth's concept of "spot of time" but the concept itself fails to justify all the time spent on showing Byronic theatrics with simplistic, hedonistic, flippant care. Time is the central theme of the book but no effort is made to actually deal with the timing of the verses themselves in the terms that the poets themselves used them. The author just glosses over time in its specificity and rests his argument on superficial observations based on the political context of the time. No mention is made of the religious and spiritual pathways that time is given in these verses despite the cover's religious imagery. | ||