Colonial Transformations
Subtitle: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World, 1580-1640
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 6, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780312230999
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Geographical discovery & exploration; Imperialism; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; England; The Americas; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; English literature; General; American influences; Early modern, 1500-1700; History and criticism; National characteristics, Amer; National characteristics, American, in literature
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.