The arts of empire : the poetics of colonialism from Ralegh to Milton
Focusing on Ireland and the New World - the two central colonial projects of Elizabethan and Stuart England - this book explores the emergings of a colonialist consciousness in the writings and politics of the English Renaissance. It looks at how the literary production of the period engages England's settlement of colonies in the New World and its colonial designs in Ireland by offering multiple perspectives in constant collision and negotiation: White/Black social relations; the politics of the colonization of Ireland; imagings and figurations of overseas expansionism; and the relationship between culture, theology, and colonial expansion
Print Book, English, ©1998
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
275 pages ; 24 cm
9780874136418, 0874136415
37902326