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"Well-edited, responsible, theoretically sophisticated, and politically engaged."--Nancy Paxton, Northern Arizona University
List of contents
Introduction / Jonathan Arac and Harriet Ritvo 1
The Problem of the Discoverer's Authority in Lewis and Clark's
History / Bruce Greenfield 12
The Discourse of Colonial Loyalty: Mexico, 1808 / Nancy Vogeley 37
Romancing the Nation-State: The Poetics of Romantic Nationalism / Marlon B. Ross 56
Macropolitics of Utopia: Shelley's
Hellas in Context / Mark Kipperman 86
The Holy Books of Empire: Translations of the British and Foreign Bible Society / Sue Zemka 102
For Your Eyes Only: Private Property and the Oriental Body in
Dombey and Son / Jeff Nunokawa 138
Colonialism and the Figurative Strategy in
Jane Eyre / Susan Meyer 159
Ahab's Manifest Destiny / Wai-chee Dimock 184
Nationalism and Exoticism: Nineteenth-Century Others in Flaubert's
Salammbô and
L'Education sentimentale / Lisa Lowe 213
Attending (to) the National Spectacle: Instituting National (Popular) Theater in England and France / Loren Kruger 243
Exotic Nostalgia: Conrad and the New Imperialism / Christ Bongie 268
Irish Primitivism and Imperial Discourse: Lady Gregory's Peasantry / James F. Knapp 286
Contributors 303
Index 305
About the author
Jonathan Arac is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Commissioned Spirits and Critical Genealogies.
Harriet Ritvo is Professor of History at MIT. She is the author of The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Age.
