Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Above all, sentimental texts used emotion as an important form of social and cultural distinction, as the attribution of sentience and feeling helped to define who would be recognized as human.

Colonies in literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Sentimentalism in literature. --- French fiction --- English fiction --- History and criticism. --- Bellettrie. --- Empfindsamkeit. --- Engels. --- Englisch. --- English fiction. --- Frans. --- Französisch. --- French fiction. --- Inheemse volken. --- Kolonialismus --- Koloniën. --- Literatur. --- Sentimentalisme. --- Wilder. --- History and criticism --- 1700-1799. --- Geschichte 1730-1790.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Leading scholars bring together eighteenth-century studies and postcolonial theory to analyze the role and reputation of Enlightenment in the context of early European colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of Western imperial projects and aspirations. - ;Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of European imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. The Enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominio

Postcolonialism. --- Enlightenment. --- Imperialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Aufklärung --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- World history --- anno 1700-1799