Romantic Literature and the Colonised World Lessons from Indigenous Translations /

• Main Author: Hessell, Nikki (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.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-18th century.; Literature, Modern-19th century.; Oriental literature.; Literature .; Eighteenth-Century Literature.; Nineteenth-Century Literature.; Asian Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.

This book considers indigenous-language translations of Romantic texts in the British colonies. It argues that these translations uncover a latent discourse around colonisation in the original English texts. Focusing on poems by William Wordsworth, John Keats, Felicia Hemans, and Robert Burns, and o...