Published 2009
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“…Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgments viii Timeline x Introduction: 'Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature' -- Postcolonial Studies and Empire Today -- Nation-formation and Empire in the Eighteenth Century -- Territory, Trade Routes, War and 'Great Britain' -- Print and Public Culture -- Literary Creativity, Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism -- Plan of the Book -- 1 'Theatres of Empire' -- Davenant, the Revival of Performance, and the Thematics of Empire -- Aphra Behn, Colonial Self-making, and the Uncertain Consolations of Romance -- Civil Tragedy, Commercial Humanism, and Colonial Consciousness -- 2 'The Expanding Frontiers of Prose' -- Yariko and
Inkle and the Staging of Polite Culture -- Crusoe the Merchant-adventurer -- and Friday -- 3 'Imaginative Writing, Intellectual History, and the Horizons of British Literary Culture' -- The Spectator, Print Culture, and the Circulation of International Value -- The Languages of National Difference: Becoming Roderick Random -- Luxury, Commercial Society, Enlightenment Historiography -- 4 'Perspectives from Elsewhere' -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Turkish Embassy Letters -- Johnson's Rasselas: Philosophy in an 'Oriental' Key -- Phillis Wheatley: Literacy, Poetry, and Slavery -- Ukawsaw Gronniosaw: Writing in Another Voice -- Conclusion: 'Gazing into the Future' -- Literary Transport: to India and the South Seas -- Bibliography -- Further Reading -- Index.…”
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