In a fresh investigation of primary sources and original readings, Kitson traces the origins of contemporary ideas about race though a variety of late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history.

Autorentext
PETER J. KITSON is Professor of English at the University of Dundee, UK.

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Race and Romanticism the Current Debate The Race Idea Romantic Anatomies of Race Romantic Cannibalism Eating People in the South Seas Slavery: Abolitionist Writing Romantic Sinopolitans: Travellers, Diplomats and Khans Tartars, Mongols, Manchus and Chinese