The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire

McLean, T.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-11-30

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230294004

DOI: 10.1057/9780230355217

Dimensions: 229cm x152cm

Pages: 203