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Zusatztext Review from previous edition The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory! edited by Daniel Carey and Lynn Festa! is a significant publication. The eight essays! substantial introduction! and coda that make up this collection mark an important development in both Enlightenment studies and postcolonial criticism: each is considered in relation to the other! addressing the previous critical neglect of the rolewhich Enlightenment thought played in the construction and critique of European colonial ideology. Informationen zum Autor Daniel Carey is the author of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson: Contesting Diversity in the Enlightenment and Beyond (Cambridge, 2006), and editor of Asian Travel in the Renaissance (Blackwell, 2004) and Les voyages de Gulliver: mondes lointains ou mondes proches (Presses universitaires de Caen, 2002). He is senior lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Lynn Festa is the author of Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (John Hopkins, 2006). She has taught at Harvard University, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is currently associate professor of English at Rutgers University. Klappentext Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations. Zusammenfassung Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Lynn Festa and Daniel Carey: Some Answers to the Question: 'What is Postcolonial Enlightenment?'; Part One: Subjects and Sovereignty; 1 Srinivas Aravamudan: Hobbes and America; 2 David Lloyd: The Physiological Sublime: Pleasure and Pain in the Colonial Context; Part Two: Enlightenment Categories and Postcolonial Classifications; 3 Daniel Carey: Reading Contrapuntally: Robinson Crusoe! Slavery! and Postcolonial Theory; 4 Felicity Nussbaum: Between 'Oriental' and 'Blacks! So Called!' 1688-1788; 5 Siraj Ahmed: Orientalism and the Permanent Fix of War; Part Three: Nation! Colony! and Enlightenment Universality; 6 Doris Garraway: Of Speaking Natives and Hybrid Philosophers: The French Enlightenment Critique of Colonialism; 7 Daniel Carey and Sven Trakulhun: Universalism! Diversity! and the Postcolonial Enlightenment; 8 Karen O'Brien: 'These Nations Newton Made his Own': Poetry! Knowledge and British Imperial Globalisation; Suvir Kaul: Coda: How to Write Postcolonial Histories of Empire? ...
