"An original and elegant work that will make signal contributions to the fields of eighteenth-century studies and Romanticism, and to the study of British nationalism and colonialism."—Adela Pinch, University of Michigan

Fair Exotics
Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850

Rajani Sudan

2002 | 208 pages | Cloth $59.95
Literature | Cultural Studies
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Table of Contents

Introduction
1 Institutionalizing Xenophobia: Johnson's Project
2 De Quincey and the Topography of Romantic Desire
3 Mothered Identities: Facing the Nation in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft
4 Fair Exotics: Two Case Histories in Frankenstein and Villette
Afterword

Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments