TY - BOOK ID - 142499077 TI - Colonialism, world literature, and the making of the modern culture of letters PY - 2024 SN - 9781009422635 1009422634 1009422618 1009422626 9781009422642 9781009422659 PB - Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Literature, Modern KW - Colonies. KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142499077 AB - In a radical and ambitious reconceptualization of the field, this book argues that global literary culture since the eighteenth century was fundamentally shaped by colonial histories. It offers a comprehensive account of the colonial inception of the literary sovereign - how the realm of literature was thought to be separate from history and politics - and then follows that narrative through a wide array of different cultures, multilingual archives, and geographical locations. Providing close studies of colonial archives, German philosophy of aesthetics, French realist novels, and English literary history, this book shows how colonialism shaped and reshaped modern literary cultures in decisive ways. It breaks fresh ground across disciplines such as literary studies, anthropology, history, and philosophy, and invites one to rethink the history of literature in a new light. ER -