1st Edition

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain An Archaeology of Empire

By Mita Choudhury Copyright 2019
284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

Nation-Space in Enlightenment Britain: An Archaeology of Empire is a provocative intervention that extends considerably the parameters of on-going dialogues about British identity during the Enlightenment. Thoughtfully interdisciplinary and with an allegiance to the culture which literary production engenders, this book describes how British identity emerges not despite of but due to its fluid,... Read more
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Biography

Mita Choudhury is associate professor of English at Purdue University Northwest. After receiving her PhD in English at the Pennsylvania State University (1989), she taught Shakespeare at St. Lawrence University and, subsequently, as assistant professor, she taught drama at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Author of Interculturalism and Resistance in the London Theatre (Bucknell 2000) and co-editor of Monstrous Dreams of Reason (Bucknell 2002), her current work explores the spatial dimension of imperial formations in Enlightenment Britain.