Abstract
Hessell offers a challenge to the lack of attention to indigenous languages, readers, and print cultures in Romantic studies. The chapter outlines the ways in which the global reception of the Romantic canon always included some sense of indigenous readers, and the need for settler scholars to engage ethically with this subject. Translation, Hessell suggests, is a neglected area of research in Romantic studies, despite the turn to global Romanticism. Arguing for a dynamic approach to periodisation, Hessell connects moments of composition with moments of reception to propose a new conceptualisation of what constitutes the Romantic period, with indigenous responses at the core.
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Linda Tuhiwai Smith 1999.
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For the importance of appropriate recompense to indigenous communities by scholars, see Abbott Mihesuah 2005, 76–77.
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The Māori translator Tai Ahu and I have presented together in three venues to date: at the December 2010 conference “Writing Past Each Other? Literary Translation and Community” (Wellington, New Zealand); on 25 July 2013 in the English programme seminar series at Victoria University of Wellington; and at the annual Burns Lecture in Dunedin on 30 November 2015.
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See also Venuti 1995, 18–19.
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A call for a similar extension has been made in Wagner 2015, 224.
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Hessell, N. (2018). Introduction. In: Romantic Literature and the Colonised World. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70933-8_1
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