The Geography of Empire in English Literature, 1580-1745 (Hardcover)

Between 1580 and 1745, a period that saw Edmund Spenser's journey to an unconquered Ireland and the Jacobite Rebellion, the first British Empire was established. The intervening years saw the cultural and material forces of colonialism pursue a fitful, often fanciful endeavour to secure space for this expansion. With the defeat of the Highland clans, what England in 1580 could only dream about had materialised: a coherent, socio-spatial system known as an empire. Taking the Atlantic world as its context, this ambitious 1999 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 skilfully explores how works by Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Aphra Behn, Mary Rowlandson, Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift imagine, interrogate and narrate the adventure and geography of empire.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Bruce McLeod
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	298
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-66079-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	0-521-66079-3
Barcode:	9780521660792

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