Review of Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Tara Ghoshal Wallace

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2012
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The Scriblerian
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A review of Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature, written by Tara Ghoshal Wallace, published by Bucknell in 2010. "...the latest entry in a lineage of scholarship that examines how Britain forged its identity by defining and opposing itself to an 'Other.' Colonialism, of course, provided Britain with a wealth of such '‘Others'....Ms. Wallace is interested in how Scotland and England forged a new British identity after the Acts of Union by contrasting themselves with a 'foreign' threat. But she chooses none of the usual suspects: for her, England's 'other' is neither the French nor even principally the colonized. It is the colonial project itself."
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National characteristics, British, in literature--Book reviews, Imperialism in literature--Book reviews, English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
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Kahan, Lee. “Review of Imperial Characters: Home and Periphery in Eighteenth-Century Literature by Tara Ghoshal Wallace.” The Scriblerian, vol. 44, no. 2, Spring-Autumn 2012, pp. 109–11, doi:10.1353/scb.2012.0049.
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10.1353/scb.2012.0049
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