The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique

by Clement Hawes

The British Eighteenth Century and the Postcolonial Moment challenges reigning clich s about 'modernity'. It intervenes in debates within current literary theory by means of a close engagement with texts from the British eighteenth-century, viewing the latter as a resource for the contemporary postcolonial future. Indeed, rather than 'applying' postcolonial theory to eighteenth-century texts, the book instead refines postcolonial theory by using such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403968160
• ISBN13: 9781403968166
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 8.5"