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Technologies of Empire
Dermot Ryan
其他書名
Writing, Imagination, and the Making of Imperial Networks, 1750–1820
出版Rutgers University Press, 2012-12-21
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Modern / 18th CenturyLanguage Arts & Disciplines / Communication StudiesPolitical Science / ImperialismLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
ISBN16445308059781644530801
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=h-p8EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Technologies of Empire looks at the ways in which writers of the long eighteenth century treat writing and imagination as technologies that can produce rather than merely portray empire. Authors ranging from Adam Smith to William Wordsworth consider writing not as part of a larger logic of orientalism that represents non-European subjects and spaces in fixed ways, but as a dynamic technology that organizes these subjects and transforms these spaces. Technologies of Empire reads the imagination as an instrument that works in tandem with writing, expanding and consolidating the networks of empire. Through readings across a variety of genres, ranging from Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France to Maria Edgeworth’s Irish fiction and Wordsworth’s epic poetry, this study offers a new account of writing’s role in empire-building and uncovers a genealogy of the romantic imagination that is shot through by the imperatives of imperialism.

Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.