Imperial Affliction: Eighteenth-Century British Poets and Their Twentieth-Century Lives (Postcolonial Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (600 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433108720 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 182 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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. The Author: Thomas Simmons is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where he has taught since 1992. After completing his Ph.D. He has also taught at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. His five previous books include The Unseen Shore: Memories of a Christian Science Childhood; A Season in
Young writes, «colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction.» Imperial Affliction examines some ways in which Young’s observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain. Jackson Bate and Lionel Trilling; the problem of imperial fixity in James Cook’s journals with a view to Gray’s «Elegy» and Goldsmith’s «Deserted Village»; and the problem of purity as a paradoxically privileged and exilic force in the work of John Newton and Christopher Smart. How might these «seeds of destruction» manifest themselves as problems of identity? How might the very selves with greatest access to self-affirmation – the idea of the empire, the idea of British citizenry, the idea of the British self – actually find themselves vuln
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After completing his Ph.D. His five previous books include The Unseen Shore: Memories of a Christian Science Childhood; A Season in the Air: One Man’s Adventures in Flying; Erotic Reckonings: Mastery and Apprenticeship in the Work of Poets and Lovers; Ghost Man: Reflections on Evolution, Love, and Loss; and The Burning Child: Essays on Mental Health and Illness. He has also taught at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the Everett Moore Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. About the Author The Author: Thomas Simmons is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa, where he has taught since 1992.