Heroes of empire
Subtitle: the British imperial protagonist in America, 1596-1764
By: Richard Frohock.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; University of Delaware
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Imperialism in literature.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; British -- America -- Historiography.; Colonies in literature.; Heroes in literature.; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Historiography.; America -- In literature.
Description: "The British representation of America in the colonial period is an unwieldy topic, and scholars have fashioned various points of focus for studies of imperialist discourse of the Americas, including cannibalism, translation, wonder, the figure of woman, the tropicopolitan, and the romance of the first encounter. This book adds to the studies of imperialist discourse by delineating in unprecedented detail the evolution of the British imperial hero from Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596) to James Grainger's The Sugar Cane (1764), with concentration on narratives produced between Cromwell's Western Design (1655) and the British raid on Cartegena (1741)."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: The British conqueror in America; title: Aphra Behn's America; title: Science and conquest; title: Labor and conquest; title: Satire and conquest; title: Epilogue : the planter-hero in James Grainger's The sugar cane.