The Geography of Empire in English Literature, 1580–1745
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- Author: Bruce McLeod
- Date Published: October 2009
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- isbn: 9780521121392
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Between 1580 and 1745--Edmund Spenser's journey to an unconquered Ireland and the Jacobite Rebellion--the first British Empire was established. This ambitious book argues that England's culture during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was saturated with a geographic imagination fed by the experiences and experiments of colonialism. Using theories of space and its production to ground his readings, Bruce McLeod skillfully explores how works by Spenser, Milton, Aphra Behn, Mary Rowlandson, Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift imagine, interrogate and narrate the adventure and geography of empire.
Read more- Offers fresh perspective on empire and colonialism through its study of the cultural and historical geography of the transatlantic world
- Gives a radical reading of canonical works by Spenser, Milton, Defoe and others
- Combines the study of literary texts with theories of space and its production
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"Reading this fine book is a delight and an education. The prose is powerful and concise, the reading wide yet well digested, and the thesis as intelligent as it is adventuous." John Gillies, Modern Philology
See more reviews"...McLeod's wide-ranging (at times loosely) and learned book details the spatial politics embedded in late sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and early eighteenth-century literary texts...McLeod attends to both the cultural and the material work of English/British identity formation." Spenser Newsletter
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- Date Published: October 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521121392
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.45kg
- availability: Available
Table of 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 systematising of the Yahoo
7. Conclusion: the politics of space.
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