Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel

Matthew C. Salyer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

298 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6292-8 (ISBN)

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Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American “romancers” and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain’s diffused, tenuous, and often accidental authority. Salyer argues that this cultural experience, more than what Lukács had in mind when he wrote of a mass historical consciousness after Napoleon, gave rise to the Romantic historiographical approach of writers such as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Brockden Brown and Frederick Marryat. This book traces the conversion of the eighteenth-century imperial speaker into the nineteenth-century “romance” hero through a number of proto-novelistic responses to the problem of Imperial history, including Edmund Burke in the Annual Register and the celebrated court case of James Annesley, among others. The author argues that popular Romantic novels such as Scott’s Waverley and Cooper’s The Pioneers convert the problem of narrating the political geographies of eighteenth-century Empire into a discourse of history, placing the historical realities of negotiating Imperial authority at the heart of a nineteenth-century project that fictionalized the possibilities and limits of political historical agency in the modern nation state.

Matthew Carey Salyer is associate professor of English at the United States Military Academy, West Point.

Introduction: When We “empired in the empire”: The Problem of Narrating Imperial Time and Place in an Imperial Time and Place

Chapter One: “A little false geography”: Edmund Burke as Edward Waverley

Chapter Two: “The empire of the father continues even after his death”: Edgar Huntly, James Annesley, and the Eighteenth-Century Orphan Redemptioner Narrative

Chapter Three: Still “under Sir William”: Locum Tenens, Cooper’s Leatherstocking, and the Tragic View of the American Revolution

Chapter Four: “Revolution is a work of blood”: Nationalism, Horror, and Mercantile Empire in Frederick Marryat’s The Phantom Ship

Chapter Five: “Buried in their strange decay”: Lost Letters, Lost Races, and Imperial (Mis)translations

Chapter Six: “Just as Government’s a mere matter of form”: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Imperial Romanticism, and the Art of “Personation”

Chapter Seven: Coda: “And to show us your books”: Kipling’s Peachey Taliaferro Carnehan as “Romance-Monger” and Reader

Erscheinungsdatum	05.05.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 220 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4985-6292-2 / 1498562922
ISBN-13	978-1-4985-6292-8 / 9781498562928
Zustand	Neuware