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The relationships between literary discourse and colonial politics have been the subject of much critical investigation since the publication of Edward Said's orientalism. Yet although much has been written about the forms these relationships took in the early modern period and in the nineteenth century, the Romantic period has been comparatively neglected. This volume sets out to redress that imbalance by investigating Romantic writing in its relationship to the peoples and places with which the British were increasingly coming into contact. Topics examined include slavery, race, climate, tropical disease, religion and commodity production; a wide range of writers are discussed from Edmund Burke to Hannah More, William Blake to Phyllis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano to Mary Shelley, Thomas Clarkson to Lord Byron. Together the essays constitute a broad assessment of Romanticism's engagement with India, Africa, the West Indies, South America and the Middle East.

The first sustained investigation of Romantic literature in relation to colonial politics.

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Notes on Contributors = ⅶ

Acknowledgements = xi

1 Romanticism and colonialism : texts, contexts, issues / Tim Fulford ; Peter J. Kitson = 1

2 Romanticism and colonialism : races, places, peoples, 1785-1800 / Peter J. Kitson = 13

3 Romanticism and colonialism : races, places, peoples, 1800- 1830 / Tim Fulford = 35

4 Accessing India : Orientalism, anti-'Indianism' and the rhetoric of Jones and Burke / Michael J. Franklin = 48

5 'Sunshin end Shady Groves' : what Blake's 'Little Black Boy' learned from African writers / Lauren Henry = 67

6 Blood Suger / Timothy Morton = 87

7 'Wisely forgetful' : Coleridge and the politics of Pantisocracy / Jamas C. Mckusick = 107

8 Darkness visible? Race and representation in Bristol abolitionist poetry, 1770-1810 / Alan Richardson = 129

9 Fictional constructions of Liberated Africans : Mary Butt Sherwood / Moira Ferguson = 148

10 'Wandering through Eblis' ; absorption and containment in Romantic exoticism / Nigel Leask = 165

11 The Isle of Devils : The Jamaican journal of M. G. Lewis ./ D. L. Macdonald = 189

12 Indian Jugglers : Hazlitt, Romantic Orientalism, and the difference of view / John Whale = 206

13 'Some samples of the finest Orientalism' : Byronic Philhellenism and proto-Zionism at the time of the Congress of Vienna / Caroline Frankin = 221

14 'Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee...' : Byron's Venice and Oriental Empire / Malcolm kelsall = 243

15 The plague of imperial desire : Montesquieu, Gibbon, Brougham, and Mary Shelley's The Last Man / Joseph W. Lew = 261

Index = 279