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- catalog abstract ""Taking the Atlantic world as its context, this book argues that England's culture during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was saturated with a geographic imagination fed by the experiences and experiments of colonialism. Using theories of space and its production to ground his readings, Bruce McLeod explores how works by Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Aphra Behn, Mary Rowlandson, Daniel Defoe, and Jonathan Swift imagine, interrogate and narrate the adventure and geography of empire."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11342221.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Taking the Atlantic world as its context, this book argues that England's culture during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was saturated with a geographic imagination fed by the experiences and experiments of colonialism. Using theories of space and its production to ground his readings, Bruce McLeod explores how works by Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Aphra Behn, Mary Rowlandson, Daniel Defoe, and Jonathan Swift imagine, interrogate and narrate the adventure and geography of empire."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Introduction: productions of empire -- 2. Thinking territorially: Spenser, Ireland, and the English nation-state -- 3. Contracting geography from the country house to the colony.".
- catalog description "4. Overseeing paradise: Milton, Behn, and Rowlandson -- 5. The import and export of colonial space: the islands of Defoe and Swift -- 6. 1745 and the systematizing of the Yahoo -- 7. Conclusion: the politics of space.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-279) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 284 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521660793 (hardback)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "820.9/358 21".
- catalog subject "Colonies in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Geography in literature.".
- catalog subject "Imperialism in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR428.I54 M38 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Introduction: productions of empire -- 2. Thinking territorially: Spenser, Ireland, and the English nation-state -- 3. Contracting geography from the country house to the colony.".
- catalog tableOfContents "4. Overseeing paradise: Milton, Behn, and Rowlandson -- 5. The import and export of colonial space: the islands of Defoe and Swift -- 6. 1745 and the systematizing of the Yahoo -- 7. Conclusion: the politics of space.".
- catalog title "The geography of empire in English literature, 1580-1745 / Bruce McLeod.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".