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The other East and nineteenth-century British literature = imagining Poland and the Russian Empire /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The other East and nineteenth-century British literature/ Thomas McLean.
Reminder of title:	imagining Poland and the Russian Empire /
Author:	McLean, Thomas,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource (p.)
Subject:	English literature - History and criticism. - 19th century -
Subject:	Europe, Eastern - Politics and government - 1989- -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230355217
ISBN:	9780230355217 (electronic bk.)

The other East and nineteenth-century British literature = imagining Poland and the Russian Empire /
McLean, Thomas,1965-

The other East and nineteenth-century British literatureimagining Poland and the Russian Empire /[electronic resource] :Thomas McLean. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource (p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Other East -- 'That Woman, Lovely Woman! May have Dominion': Catherine the Great and Poland� -- 'A Patriot's Furrow'd Cheek': British Responses to the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising� -- Hero Between Genres: Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw -- 'Transformed, not only altered': The Resurrection of Kosciuszko and the Arrival of Mazeppa -- 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 --.

British Romantic writers imagined the Polish exile as a sympathetic wanderer whose homeland no longer existed and the Russian as barbarous and ravenous. But in the Victorian era both were seen as clever, deceitful citizens of the world. This fascinating book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of William Blake's Europe, Lord Byron's Mazeppa, and George Eliot's Middlemarch, and recovering influential works by Jane Porter and Thomas Campbell. This study begins with Catherine the Great and the eighteenth-century partition of Poland, moves through a variety of texts inspired by Polish freedom fighter Tadeusz Kosciuszko, and examines the changing stereotypes that appeared as later uprisings failed and new refugees arrived in Britain. Extending recent scholarship on ethnicity, nationalism, and cosmopolitanism, The Other East reveals the tropes that shaped British opinion as the idealized Polish exile gradually became the ambiguous Eastern immigrant, and Russia became a serious challenge to the British Empire.

ISBN: 9780230355217 (electronic bk.)

Source: 498883Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

560374
English literature
--History and criticism.--19th centurySubjects--Geographical Terms:

566925
Europe, Eastern
--Politics and government--1989-Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR451 / .M44 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/007

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