Romantic Literature, Race, and Colonial Encounter

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In a fresh investigation of primary sources and original readings, Kitson traces the origins of contemporary ideas about race though a variety of late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century literary texts by Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, De Quincey, and other published and unpublished writings about travel and exploration and natural history. Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-9 The Race Idea and the Romantics: Coleridge and De Quincey....Pages 11-49 Romantic Anatomies of Race: The New Comparative Anatomy and the Case of Victor Frankenstein....Pages 51-87 “Candid Reflections:” The Idea of Race in the Debate over the Slave Trade and Slavery in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries....Pages 89-121 Romanticism, Race, and Cannibalism in the “South Seas”....Pages 123-141 Romantic Sinopolitans: Natural Philosophers, Travelers, Diplomats, and Missionaries....Pages 143-173 Tartars, Monguls, Manchus, and Chinese....Pages 175-213 Back Matter....Pages 215-269