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The geography of empire in English literature, 1580-1745

Title
  1. The geography of empire in English literature, 1580-1745 / Bruce McLeod.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Author
  1. McLeod, Bruce, Ph. D.

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Description
  1. xii, 284 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "Taking the Atlantic world as its context, this 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 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."--Jacket.
Subject
  1. 1500-1799
  2. Geschichte 1580-1745
  3. English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
  4. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
  5. Imperialism in literature
  6. Geography in literature
  7. Colonies in literature
  8. 18.05 English literature
  9. English literature
  10. English literature > Early modern
  11. Englisch
  12. Expansion
  13. Geografie
  14. Imperialismus
  15. Kolonialismus
  16. Literatur
  17. Engels
  18. Letterkunde
  19. Imperialisme
  20. Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique
  21. Impérialisme > Dans la littérature
  22. Géographie > Dans la littérature
  23. Colonies > Dans la littérature
  24. Littérature anglaise > 16e siècle > Histoire et critique
  25. Littérature anglaise > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique
  26. England
  27. Englisch
Genre/Form
  1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.