LEADER 03418nam 2200769Ia 450 001 9910777053603321 005 20230422045033.0 010 $a1-281-29178-1 010 $a9786611291785 010 $a1-84714-382-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000412805 035 $a(EBL)436058 035 $a(OCoLC)290594188 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223054 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11187883 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223054 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10181907 035 $a(PQKB)10318458 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436058 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL436058 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10224713 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL129178 035 $a(OCoLC)893333414 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000412805 100 $a19991018d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe poetics of empire$b[electronic resource] $ea study of James Grainger's The sugar-cane /$fJohn Gilmore 210 $aLondon ;$aNew Brunswick, NJ $cAthlone Press ;$aSomerset, N.J. $cDistributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-485-11539-5 311 $a0-485-12148-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes to Introduction; The Sugar-Cane: A Poem; Appendix I: ""Great Homer deignd to sing of little Mice""; Appendix II: Bryan and Pereene; Appendix III: Colonel Martin's directions for planting and sugar-making; Appendix IV: Ramsay's account of a plantation day; Additional Notes to The Sugar-Cane; Bibliography; Index 330 $aFirst published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the Twentieth Century to achieve a place in the Western 'canon'. Grainger sought to interpret his personal experience of the Caribbean through his wide and deep reading in literature, from the Greeks to Milton. Grainger wrote a 'West India Georgic', challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the Eighteenth Century British empire.. This is t 606 $aDidactic poetry, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPlantation life in literature 606 $aSugarcane industry$vPoetry 606 $aImperialism in literature 606 $aAgriculture in literature 606 $aPlantation life$vPoetry 606 $aImperialism$vPoetry 606 $aSugarcane$vPoetry 607 $aCaribbean Area$xIn literature 607 $aCaribbean Area$vPoetry 615 0$aDidactic poetry, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPlantation life in literature. 615 0$aSugarcane industry 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 615 0$aAgriculture in literature. 615 0$aPlantation life 615 0$aImperialism 615 0$aSugarcane 676 $a811 700 $aGilmore$b John$f1956-$01434285 701 $aGrainger$b James$f1721?-1766.$01537004 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777053603321 996 $aThe poetics of empire$93786075 997 $aUNINA