Colonialism, Race, and the French Romantic Imagination (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)

by PratimaPrasad (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $157.75

  Investigates how French Romanticism was shaped by and contributed to colonial discourses of race. This title studies the ways in which metropolitan Romantic novels comprehend and construct colonized peoples, fashion French identity in the context of colonialism, and record the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans.