The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique

Download or read book The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique written by Clement Hawes and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clement Hawes intervenes in debates within current literary theory by means of a close engagement with texts from the British eighteenth century, viewing the latter as a resource for the contemporary postcolonial future. Indeed, rather than applying postcolonial theory to eighteenth-century texts, the book instead refines postcolonial theory by using such eighteenth-century authors as Swift, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and Equiano.