The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire
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Introduction
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.
Keywords
culture English literature Europe Great Britain William Blake
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355217
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
- eBook Packages Palgrave Literature Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-349-33316-5
- Online ISBN 978-0-230-35521-7
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