Imperial Characters(English, Hardcover, Wallace Tara Ghoshal)

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Imperial Characters(English, Hardcover, Wallace Tara Ghoshal) is written by Wallace Tara Ghoshal and published by Associated University Presses. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838757405 (ISBN 10) and 9780838757406 (ISBN 13).

During the long eighteenth century Britain won and lost an empire in North America while consolidating its hegemony on the Indian subcontinent. The idea of imperial Britain became an essential piece of national self-definition, so that to be British was to be a citizen of an imperial power. The British literary imagination inevitably participated in the formulation and interrogation of this new national character, examining, in fiction, empire's effects on the world at home. Imperial Characters traces a range of literary articulations of how British national character is formed, changed, and distorted by the imperial project. Wallace argues that each text she considers, from Aphra Behn's early description of seventeenth-century colonists in Surinam to Robert Louis Stevenson's historical narrative about eighteenth-century Scotsmen roaming the globe, enacts the opportunities, disruptions, and dangers of imperial adventurism. Through close readings contextualized within historical moments, Wallace shows that literary texts rehearse the risks incurred in the course of imperial expansion, not only to British lives but also to cherished national values.Tara Ghoshal Wallace is Professor of English at The George Washington University.