{"product_id":"fair-exotics-xenophobic-subjects-in-english-literature-172-185-9780812236569","title":"Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 172-185","description":"\u003cp\u003eArguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literature--inwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and texts--were forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and territories that lay uneasily beyond the national border. The urge to colonize and discover embraced both an interest in foreign \"fair exotics\" and a deeply rooted sense of their otherness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFair Exotics\u003c\/i\u003e develops a revisionist reading of the period of the British Enlightenment and Romanticism, an age during which England was most aggressively building its empire. By looking at canonical texts, including Defoe's \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e, Johnson's \u003ci\u003eDictionary\u003c\/i\u003e, De Quincey's \u003ci\u003eConfessions of an English Opium Eater\u003c\/i\u003e, and Bronte's \u003ci\u003eVillette\u003c\/i\u003e, Sudan shows how the imaginative subject is based on a sense of exoticism created by a pervasive fear of what is foreign. Indeed, as Sudan clarifies, xenophobia is the underpinning not only of nationalism and imperialism but of Romantic subjectivity as well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rajani Sudan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/02\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e New Cultural Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812236569","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44135033602185,"sku":"9780812236569","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_1eed33ab-a296-4d8f-98b4-387fce54dab5.jpg?v=1748394123","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/fair-exotics-xenophobic-subjects-in-english-literature-172-185-9780812236569","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}