I should have read it long time ago. Blame on me, it's a bit late now. I came across this masterpiece yesterday and I couldn't put it down. Wonderfully written, this book has changed the perspective of many scholars on the role played by culture (i.e. English literature) in forging imperialism.
The role of culture in the modern imperial experience is in fact paramount and Edward Said looks at "individual works to read them first as great products of the creative or interpretative imagination, and then to show them as part of the relationship between culture and empire" (xxiv).
I'll write more about it.
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