Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter

by Peter J. Kitson

In a fresh investigation of primary sources and original readings, Kitson traces the origins of contemporary ideas about race though a variety of late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403976457
• ISBN13: 9781403976451
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"