Technologies of Empire looks at the ways in which writers of the long eighteenth century treat writing and imagination as technologies that can produce rather than merely portray empire. Authors ranging from Adam Smith to William Wordsworth consider writing not as part of a larger logic of orientalism that represents non-European subjects and spaces in fixed ways, but as a dynamic technology that organizes these subjects and transforms these spaces.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
"The beauty of that arrangement": Adam Smith imagines empire
Edmund Burke and the regicide republic of letters
Writing imperial networks in Maria Edgeworth's Irish fiction
"Another and the same": William Wordsworth's poetry and the children of empire
Conclusion: A future for the humanities?
