Download or read book The British Eighteenth Century and Global Critique written by Clement Hawes and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clement Hawes intervenes in debates within current literary theory by means of a close engagement with texts from the British eighteenth century, viewing the latter as a resource for the contemporary postcolonial future. Indeed, rather than applying postcolonial theory to eighteenth-century texts, the book instead refines postcolonial theory by using such eighteenth-century authors as Swift, Gay, Johnson, Sterne, and Equiano.