The Cambridge companion to British literature and empire / Auritro Majumder.

Other author Majumder, Auritro
Other author Cambridge University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoCambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Descriptionpages cm
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Subjects
English literature--History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature

Contents Introduction: Situating British literature and empire / Auritro Majumder -- Early modern utopia : capitalism, colonialism, and private property / Crystal Bartolovich -- Trade, race, and class in early modern England / Ania Loomba -- Peripheral heroics on the renaissance stage / Su Fang Ng -- Travel narratives and the early novel /Jason Pearl -- Anglophone epics and ruin poetry in eighteenth-century India / James Mulholland -- The Black Atlantic, slave narratives, and empire / Nicole Aljoe -- Romantic orientalist poetry and the spectacle of revolution / Arif Camoglu -- The historical novel and nineteenth century empire / Ian Duncan -- Gothic plots and the nineteenth century Irish novel / Christina Morin -- The Victorian industrial novel and the working classes / Aviva Briefel -- Victorian liberalism, settler character, and literary form / Philip Steer -- The imperial romance : colonialism in ritual form / Sandeep Banerjee -- Unraveling adventure fictions: modernist compressions and anti-imperial connections / Dominic Davies -- Poetic accumulation, modernist verse, and imperial capital / Paul Stasi -- Modernist women, technologies of whiteness, and un-doing empire / Sonita Sarker -- Joyce and his contemporaries: revivalism, modernism, and Irish anti-imperialism / Joe Cleary -- Popular front aesthetics, imperialism, and the people / Elinor Taylor -- British fiction, decolonization, and the Cold War / Andrew Hammond -- Beyond the empire : Black Caribbean British writing / Lisa Tomlinson -- Re-imagining the first world war in contemporary British-Arab writing / Nadia Atia -- Multiculturalism and Muslim writing after Brexit / Amina Yaqin.
Abstract "Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters written by renowned experts survey aspects of connected forms and the emergence of key genres of fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction. Familiarizes readers and scholars with the British imperial past and its present relevance"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2025012332
ISBN9781009554381 hardback
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