Colonial Transformations

"In the book, Bach contends that England's colonial ambitions surface in all of its literary texts, which 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 "savages," constituting enduring stereotypes of native people, and resisting official versions of colonial encounters."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: Although until recently most early modern English poetry has been read as inhabiting a world apart from poets' colonial ambitions, for a long time critics have read Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in relation to his personal career in Ireland.

Year

2000

Language

English

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Editions

1

Pages

304

ISBN

9780312230999

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