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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820479703321

Autore

Hodgkins Christopher <1958->

Titolo

Reforming empire : Protestant colonialism and conscience in British literature / / Christopher Hodgkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8262-6294-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Disciplina

820.9/358

Soggetti

English literature - Protestant authors - History and criticism

Imperialism in literature

Protestantism and literature

Conscience in literature

Colonies in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Binding Ties 1 --One. Once-and-Future Kings -- The "Matter of Britain" and Protestant Imperial Recovery from John Dee to Cymbeline 10 --Two. The Uses of Atrocity -- Satanic Spaniards, Hispanic Satans, and the "Black Legend" from Las Casas to Milton 54 --Three. Stooping to Conquer -- Heathen Idolatry, Protestant Humility, and the "White Legend" of Drake 77 --Four. The Nubile Savage and the Soulless Slave -- Imagining Race from Pocahontas to the Colonial Color Line 113 --Five. Prophets against Empire -- Countertraditions, 1516-1815 137 --Six. "Hollow All Delight!" -- Countertraditions, 1815-1945 191.