Heroes of Empire: The British Imperial Protagonist in America, 1596-1764University of Delaware Press, 2004 - 227 páginas Over the past decade, literary scholars have become increasingly engaged with colonial studies and have fashioned various points of focus in their investigations of imperialist narratives, including the figure of woman, cannibalism, the romance of the first encounter, and the tropicopolitan. This book builds on existing work by offering a new focal point: the evolution of the British imperial hero in America from Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of... Guiana (1596) to James Grainger's The Sugar Cane (1764), with concentration on narratives produced between the year of Cromwell's Western Design (1655) and the British raid on Cartegena (1741). Each individual chapter isolates a distinct type of colonial hero, furnishing examples from a wide variety of narratives, including some nonfiction essays and tracts, but chiefly novels, plays, and poems. |
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Aphra Behns America | 53 |
Science and Conquest | 81 |
Labor and Conquest | 107 |
Satire and Conquest | 138 |
The PlanterHero in James Graingers The Sugar Cane 1764 | 167 |
Notes | 181 |
Bibliography | 211 |
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Heroes of Empire: The British Imperial Protagonist in America, 1596-1764 Richard Frohock Vista de fragmentos - 2004 |
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Página 15 - torne, nor the vertue and salt of the soyle spent by manurance, the graves have not beene opened for gold, the mines not broken with sledges, nor their Images puld down out of their temples. It hath never been entred by any armie of strength, and never conquered or possessed by any Christian Prince.