The other east and nineteenth-century British literature: imagining Poland and the Russian empire

The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europeto 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. THOMAS McLEAN is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the editor of 'Further Letters of Joanna Baillie' (2010). INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Introduction: The OtherEast - 'That Woman, Lovely Woman! May have Dominion': Catherine the Great andPoland - 'A Patriot's Furrow'd Cheek': British Responses to the 1794 KoE ciuszko Uprising - Hero Between Genres: Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw - 'Transformed, not only altered': The Resurrection of KoE ciuszko and the Arrival ofMazeppa - Climate Change: Britain and Poland 1830-1849 - Arms and the Circassian Woman - Picturing Will: Middlemarch and the Victorian Genealogy of the Polish Hero - Afterword: Conrad's Poles - Notes - Bibliography - Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29400-4
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 16/12/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés