Bruce McLeod

The Geography of Empire in English Literature, 1580 1745

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ambitious exploration of the adventure and geography of empire in the works of English writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521121392
• ISBN-10: 0521121396
• Artikelnr.: 27064902

Inhaltsangabe

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.