Imperial Affliction - Eighteenth-Century British Poets and Their Twentieth-Century Lives - Bog af Thomas Simmons - Hardback

Imperial Affliction - Eighteenth-Century British Poets and Their Twentieth-Century Lives - Thomas Simmons

In many ways, Robert J C Young writes, colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction. This title examines some ways in which Young's observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain.