A Compromised Commerce with East India: Lucien Bonaparte’s La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina (1799)
| dc.contributor.author | Moore, Fabienne | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-15T21:29:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-15T21:29:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | |
| dc.description | 26 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | In 1799 Lucien Bonaparte (1775-1840) published an equivocal exotic, sentimentalist, and epic novel La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina set in Ceylon. Likely pressured by his brother Napoléon Bonaparte, Lucien quickly suppressed a novel avowedly anticolonial. This article analyzes Lucien Bonaparte’s critique of colonial practices and commerce as politically equivocal or “compromised,” and traces the ambivalence of his post-revolutionary novel to its main sources of inspiration, the best-selling Histoire philosophique des deux Indes published by Guillaume Raynal in 1780. Ultimately, La Tribu indienne reflects the impossible construction of an enlightened or soft colonialism à la française. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Copyright © 2000 Trustees of Boston University. This article first appeared in Studies in Romanticism, Volume 59, Issue 3, Fall 2020 pages 273-298. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/25565 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Lucien Bonaparte | en_US |
| dc.subject | Guillaume Raynal | en_US |
| dc.subject | colonial trade | en_US |
| dc.subject | Colonialism | en_US |
| dc.subject | East India | en_US |
| dc.subject | French literature | en_US |
| dc.title | A Compromised Commerce with East India: Lucien Bonaparte’s La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina (1799) | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |