The poetics of empire [[electronic resource] ] : a study of James Grainger's The sugar-cane / / John Gilmore
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| Autore: |
Gilmore John <1956->
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| Titolo: |
The poetics of empire [[electronic resource] ] : a study of James Grainger's The sugar-cane / / John Gilmore
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New Brunswick, NJ, : Athlone Press |
| Somerset, N.J., : Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers, 2000 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811 |
| Soggetto topico: | Didactic poetry, English - History and criticism |
| Plantation life in literature | |
| Sugarcane industry | |
| Imperialism in literature | |
| Agriculture in literature | |
| Plantation life | |
| Imperialism | |
| Sugarcane | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Caribbean Area In literature |
| Caribbean Area Poetry | |
| Altri autori: |
GraingerJames <1721?-1766.>
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-332) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | First 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The poetics of empire |
| ISBN: | 1-281-29178-1 |
| 9786611291785 | |
| 1-84714-382-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777053603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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