TY  - GEN
T1  - Technologies of Empire  : Writing, Imagination, and the Making of Imperial Networks, 1750-1820.
A1  - Ryan, Dermot
LA  - English
PP  - Chicago
PB  - University of Delaware Press
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1338838045
AB  - Technologies of Empire looks at the ways in which writers of the long eighteenth century treat writing and imagination as technologies that can produce rather than merely portray empire. Authors ranging from Adam Smith to William Wordsworth consider writing not as part of a larger logic of orientalism that represents non-European subjects and spaces in fixed ways, but as a dynamic technology that organizes these subjects and transforms these spaces. Technologies of Empire reads the imagination as an instrument that works in tandem with writing, expanding and consolidating the networks of empire. Through readings across a variety of genres, ranging from Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France to Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction and Wordsworth's epic poetry, this study offers a new account of writing's role in empire-building and uncovers a genealogy of the romantic imagination that is shot through by the imperatives of imperialism. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
OP  - 200
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - PN56.I465
SN  - 1644530805
SN  - 9781644530801
SN  - 9781644530788
KW  - Imperialism in literature.
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature.
KW  - Literature and society : History.
KW  - Literature and technology : History.
KW  - Impérialisme dans la littérature.
KW  - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature et société : Histoire.
KW  - Littérature et technologie : Histoire.
KW  - Communication Studies.
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
KW  - English.
KW  - European.
KW  - Comparative Literature.
KW  - 18th Century.
KW  - Modern.
KW  - Imperialism.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE.
KW  - Imperialism in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Literature and technology
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - History
ER  -