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Moore, Fabienne |
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2020-09-15T21:29:57Z |
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2020-09-15T21:29:57Z |
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2020 |
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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. |
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https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/25565 |
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26 pages |
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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. |
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en |
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Johns Hopkins University Press |
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Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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Lucien Bonaparte |
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Guillaume Raynal |
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colonial trade |
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Colonialism |
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East India |
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French literature |
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A Compromised Commerce with East India: Lucien Bonaparte’s La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina (1799) |
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Article |
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