Colonial Transformations
The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World,1580-1640
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2016
XIV, 290 pages
978-1-137-08099-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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'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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REBECCA ANN BACH is Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Content
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
