Postcolonial Literary Studies
Romantic Literature and Postcolonial Studies
Elizabeth Bohls
Postcolonial Literary Studies
Literature played a crucial role in constructing and contesting the modern culture of empire that was fully in place by the start of the Victorian period. Postcolonial
criticism's concern with issues of geopolitics, race and gender, sub-alternity and exoticism shape discussions of works by major authors such as Blake, Coleridge, Percy and Mary Shelley, Austen and Scott, as well as their less familiar contemporaries.
