The geography of empire in English literature, 1580-1745 / Bruce McLeod
1999, First Edition. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, slightly edge-nicked dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #409134
ISBN: 0521660793
Physical description; xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index. Contents; 1. Introduction: productions of empire -- 2. Thinking territorially: Spenser, Ireland, and the English nation-state -- 3. Contracting geography from the country house to the colony. -- 4. Overseeing paradise: Milton, Behn, and Rowlandson -- 5. The import and export of colonial space: the islands of Defoe and Swift -- 6. 1745 and the systematizing of the Yahoo -- 7. Conclusion: the politics of space. Subjects; 1500-1799. English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism. English literature 18th century History and criticism. Imperialism in literature. Geography in literature. Colonies in literature. Imperialist expansion Elizabethan and Jacobean period English literature, 1550-1640. Imperialist expansion English literature, 1660-1800.
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