Imperial Affliction: Eighteenth-Century British Poets and Their Twentieth-Century Lives

by Thomas Simmons and R. H. Robins

«In many ways», Robert J.C. Young writes, «colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction.» Imperial Affliction examines some ways in which Young's observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain. How might these «seeds of destruction» manifest themselves as problems of identity? How might the very selves with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1433108720
• ISBN13: 9781433108723
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.