Romanticism and Aesthetic Life in Postcolonial Writing

• Main Author: Dickinson, Philip (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature .; Comparative literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Literature, Modern-18th century.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.

This book explores Romanticism as a force that exerts an insistent but critically-neglected pressure on the postcolonial imagination. From the decolonizing poetics of the Caribbean to the white writing of South Africa, from the aesthetics of post-imperial disappointment to postcolonial theory itself...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Romanticism and Postcolonial Writing: Living Thoughts, Breathing Worlds
• 2. Walcott, Wordsworth, and the Extinction of Sense
• Countervoice I: George Lamming
• 3. Dis-enclosure: Landscape, Lyric Form, and The Enigma of Arrival
• Countervoice II: Anita Desai
• 4. White Writing and the Regime of the Sensory
• Countervoice III: J. M. Coetzee
• 5. Spivak's Imagination.