The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire

By Thomas McLean

Book Overview

The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe, Byron's Mazeppa, and Eliot's Middlemarch, and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349333166
• ISBN13: 9781349333165
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"