The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature

The Polish exile and the Russian villain were familiar figures in nineteenth-century British culture. This book restores the significance of Eastern Europe to nineteenth-century British literature, offering new readings of Blake's Europe , Byron's Mazeppa , and Eliot's Middlemarch , and recovering influential works by Thomas Campbell and Jane Porter.

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THOMAS McLEAN is Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century British Literature at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the editor of Further Letters of Joanna Baillie (2010).

Inhalt
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Other East 'That Woman, Lovely Woman! May have Dominion': Catherine the Great and Poland 'A Patriot's Furrow'd Cheek': British Responses to the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising Hero Between Genres: Jane Porter's Thaddeus of Warsaw 'Transformed, not only altered': The Resurrection of Kosciuszko and the Arrival of Mazeppa Climate Change: Britain and Poland 1830-1849 Arms and the Circassian Woman Picturing Will: Middlemarch and the Victorian Genealogy of the Polish Hero Afterword: Conrad's Poles Notes Bibliography Index