Fair Exotics: Xenophobic Subjects in English Literature, 1720-1850.

Abstract

Rajani Sudan’s work in this book offers an insight into the idea of the Romantic age by tracing its ideas to the early decades of the eighteenth century, when England was beginning its imperial march and encountering the cultures of other countries. Sudan argues that the line between xenophobia and xenodochy are blurred as the writers of this period question what is deemed too foreign, as opposed to what can be accepted into their culture.