The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire

• Author(s): T. McLean,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 203
• ISBN_10: 0230355218
  ISBN_13: 9780230355217
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Literary Criticism / European / General , Literary Criticism / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.