Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World,1580-1640

by R. Bach

Overview

Colonial Transformations covers early modern English poetry and plays, Gaelic poetry, and a wide range of English colonial propaganda. In the book, Bach contends that England's colonial ambitions surface in all of its literary texts. Those texts played multiple roles in England's colonial expansions and emerging imperialism. Those roles included publicizing colonial efforts, defining some people as white and some as barbarians, constituting enduring stereotypes of native people, and resisting official versions of colonial encounters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349628254
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/16/2001
Edition description:	1st ed. 2000
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

REBECCA ANN BACH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Colonial Poetics in Spenser's Amoretti Bermuda's Ireland The Atlantic World Transformed on the London Stage Colonial Transformations in Court and City Entertainments 'A Virginia Maske' Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

'Rebecca Ann Bach's book, with its readings of such unlikely 'colonial' texts as Spenser's Amoretti and Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, is an impressively successful example of the approach Colley describes...The great strength of this book lies in Bach's willingness to enter generic and linguistic territories from which like-minded critics have tended to shy away.' - Philip Schwyzer, MLR

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