Colonial and imperial themes
Subtitle: special number
By: edited by G.K. Hunter and C.J. Rawson ; assistant editor, Jenny Mezciems
Contributors: Modern Humanities Research Association
Series: The Yearbook of English studies -- v. 13; Yearbook of English studies -- v. 13.
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780900547904
Subjects: Imperialism in literature; English literature; History and criticism; 18.05 English literature; 18.06 Anglo-American literature; Kolonialisme; Imperialisme; Letterkunde; Engels; Amerikaans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Colonial and imperial themes; title: Edmund Spenser and the development of an Anglo-Irish identity / Nicholas Canny; title: Hogs, gulls, and Englishmen: Drayton and the Virginian voyages / Joan Rees; title: The savage critic: some European images of the primitive / Anthony Pagden; title: Pastoralism, pluralism, imperialism, scientism: Andrew Marvell and the problem of mediation / Michael McKeon; title: Defoe, imperialism, and the travel books reconsidered / J. A. Downie; title: Going steddy: William Byrd's literary masquerade / Norman S. Grabo; title: Colonists and colonized: some aspects of Anglo-Irish literature from Swift to Joyce / P.F. Sheeran; title: Imitation and originality in Australian colonial poetry: the case of Charles Harpur / Leonie Kramer; title: For the term of his natural life: a colonial classic revisited / John Colmer; title: Modern misjudgements of racial imperialism in Hawthorne and Parkman / David Levin; title: 'This island's mine'; Caliban and colonialism / Trevor R. Griffiths; title: Colonial and imperial themes in South African literature 1820-1930 / Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane; title: 'A bloody racist': about Achebe's view of Conrad / Cedric Watts; title: The changing masks of empire: notes on some novels by Sara Jeannette Duncan / George Woodcock; title: 'A curiously colonial performance': The ec-centric vision of V. S. Naipaul and J. L. Borges / John King; title: Paul Scott's guardians / M. M. Mahood; title: Crouched in dark caves: the post-colonial narcissism of Canadian literature / David Staines; title: Part II. Other articles; title: Truth-telling and the tradition of 'Mum and the sothsegger' / Andrew Wawn; title: "John a Kent" and Marprelate / E. A. J. Honigmann.