Fair ExoticsArguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literatureinwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and textswere forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and territories that lay uneasily beyond the national border. The urge to colonize and discover embraced both an interest in foreign "fair exotics" and a deeply