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Technologies of Empire: Writing, Imagination, and the Making of Imperial Networks, 1750–1820
Author(s): Dermot Ryan (Author)
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication Date: 21 Dec. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 194 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611494486
- ISBN-13: 9781611494488
Book Description
Technologies of Empire reshapes postcolonial scholarship of the long eighteenth century by exploring the ways in which post-enlightenment authors employ writing and imagination to produce rather than simply represent empire. Challenging the assumption that the first imaginings of coordinated global empires occur in the later nineteenth century, this study argues that authors ranging from Adam Smith, Edmund Burke to William Wordsworth conceive of imagination and writing as technologies that can conceptualize and consolidate the new forms of empire they see emerging.
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About the Author
Dermot Ryan is assistant professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
