Making England western : occidentalism, race, and imperial culture / Saree Makdisi.

By:

Makdisi, Saree [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 295 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780226923154
0226923150

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Making England westernDDC classification:

303.48/241 23

LOC classification:

JV1035 .M35 2014eb

Other classification:

71.62
89.91

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Contents:

Preparing the way -- Making London western -- Civilizing the ballad -- Episodes of occidentalism -- Domineering over others -- Occidentalism and the erotics of the self -- The occidental imperative -- Occidentalism in crisis -- "Irregular modernization."

Summary: The central argument of Edward Said's 'Orientalism' is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that premise in this book, identifying the convergence between the British Empire's civilizing mission abroad and a parallel mission within England itself, and pointing to romanticism as one of the key sites of resistance to the imperial culture in Britain after 1815.

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The central argument of Edward Said's 'Orientalism' is that the relationship between Britain and its colonies was primarily oppositional, based on contrasts between conquest abroad and domestic order at home. Saree Makdisi directly challenges that premise in this book, identifying the convergence between the British Empire's civilizing mission abroad and a parallel mission within England itself, and pointing to romanticism as one of the key sites of resistance to the imperial culture in Britain after 1815.

English.

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