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- catalog abstract ""Most English literary criticism assumes that its object achieved a metropolitan status well before it actually did: in fact, English-language writers had to negotiate a long, slow, and self-doubting rise out of provincial subordination. Before the Empire of English shows that English-language writers of the long eighteenth century were all too aware of their provinciality within the wider European world of culture, which they sought to overcome by articulating a cultural nationalist poetics and by indulging in compensatory imperial ambitions. By examining the "progress of English" theme in poetry, the eighteenth-century notion of the republic of letters, and the poetics of the Augustan period, the book challenges narratives about the emergence and character of cultural nationalist investments in the British world, and by dismantling unexamined assumptions of metropolitan centrality, it contributes to a new, postcolonial understanding of English literary and cultural history."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13318905.
- catalog coverage "Europe Relations Great Britain.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Civilization 18th century.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Civilization European influences.".
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Relations Europe.".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Most English literary criticism assumes that its object achieved a metropolitan status well before it actually did: in fact, English-language writers had to negotiate a long, slow, and self-doubting rise out of provincial subordination. Before the Empire of English shows that English-language writers of the long eighteenth century were all too aware of their provinciality within the wider European world of culture, which they sought to overcome by articulating a cultural nationalist poetics and by indulging in compensatory imperial ambitions.".
- catalog description "By examining the "progress of English" theme in poetry, the eighteenth-century notion of the republic of letters, and the poetics of the Augustan period, the book challenges narratives about the emergence and character of cultural nationalist investments in the British world, and by dismantling unexamined assumptions of metropolitan centrality, it contributes to a new, postcolonial understanding of English literary and cultural history."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-213) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction : (dis)establishing the empire of English -- The progress of English -- The republic of letters -- National differences and national autonomy.".
- catalog extent "231 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1403964963 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "Europe Relations Great Britain.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Civilization 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Civilization European influences.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Relations Europe.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/358/09033 22".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature European influences.".
- catalog subject "Imperialism in literature.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, British, in literature.".
- catalog subject "Nationalism and literature Great Britain History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Nationalism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR448.N38 Y33 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction : (dis)establishing the empire of English -- The progress of English -- The republic of letters -- National differences and national autonomy.".
- catalog title "Before the empire of English : literature, provinciality, and nationalism in eighteenth-century Britain / Alok Yadav.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".