1st Edition

Nineteenth-Century Worlds Global formations past and present

300 Pages

by Routledge

300 Pages

by Routledge

304 Pages

by Routledge

Also available as eBook on:

Taylor & Francis eBooks
(Institutional Purchase)Opens in new tab or window

Description

This volume assembles a wide range of studies that together provide—through their interdisciplinary range, international scope, and historical emphases—an original scholarly exploration of one of the most important topics in recent nineteenth-century studies: the emergence in the nineteenth century of forms of global experience that have developed more recently into rapidly expanding processes of... Read more

Editorial Preface"

-Keith Hanley (Director, Ruskin Programme, University of Lancaster)

-Greg Kucich (Department of English and Fellow in Nanovic Center for

European Studies, University of Notre Dame)

"Introduction"

-Luke Gibbons (Keough Professor of Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame)

Section One: Global Constructions

1. "Traveling Natures"

-Alan Bewell (Department of English, University of Toronto)

2. "Jeffrey Brace in Barbados: Slavery, Interracial Relationships, and the Emergence of a

Global Economy"

-Kari J. Winter (Department of American Studies, SUNY at Buffalo)

3. "World Spectatorship for Western Commodities in Fin-de-Siècle Posters"

-Ruth Iskin (Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University, Israel)

4. "‘A Prodigious Map Beneath His Feet’: Virtual Travel and the Panoramic Perspective"

-Alison Byerly, (Department of English, Middlebury College)

5. "Cosmopolitan Emigration and the Novels of Charlotte Smith"

-Adriana Craciun (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Section Two: Colonialism and Race

6. "Deathscapes: India in an Age of Romanticism and Empire, 1800-56"

-David Arnold (Director, Centre for the History and Culture of Medicine; School of

Oriental and African Studies [SOAS]; University of London)

7. "The Middle Passages of Nancy Prince and Harriet Jacobs"

-Robin Miskolcze (Department of English, Loyola Marymount University)

8. "Without Natural Protectors"

-Miranda Morris (School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Australia)

9. "Political Economy of the Potato"

-David Lloyd (Department of English, University of Southern California)

10. "Englishness in Africa in the Nineteenth Century"

-Simon Gikandi (Department of English, Princeton University)

Section Three: Internal Others

11. "Typologies of the East: On Distinguishing Balkanism and Orientalism"

-Andrew Hammond (Swansea Institute, University of Wales)

12. "The ‘Other’ Europe of Michele Amari: Orientalism from the South"

-Roberto Dainotto (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University)

13. "‘That Imperious Passion’: Don Juan’s Russian Affair and the Vortex of Selfhood"

-Adam Komisaruk (Department of English, West Virginia University)

14. "Geographical Imaginations of the ‘Holy Land’ and the South Levantine Iron Age: Biblical Topography and Archaeological Practice in the Nineteenth Century"

-Charlotte Whiting (Council for British Research in the Levant; Amman, Jordan)

15. "Constructions of Sacred Topography: The Nineteenth Century and Today"

-Basem L. Ra’ad (Department of Political Science, Al-Quds University, Palestine)