The Other East and Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Imagining Poland and the Russian Empire

T. McLean

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9780230294004
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230355217
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The Other East
• 1 ‘That Woman, Lovely Woman! May Have Dominion’: Catherine the Great and Poland
• 2 ‘A Patriot’s Furrow’d Cheek’: British Responses to the 1794 Kościuszko Uprising
• 3 Hero between Genres: Jane Porter’s Thaddeus of Warsaw
• 4 ‘Transform’d, Not Inly Alter’d’: The Resurrection of Ko´sciuszko and the Arrival of Mazeppa
• 5 Climate Change: Britain and Poland, 1830–49
• 6 Arms and the Circassian Woman
• 7 Picturing Will: Middlemarch and the Victorian Genealogy of the Polish Hero
• Afterword: Conrad’s Poles
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index