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| 附加的形体格式: | Online version: Hodgkins, Christopher, 1958- Reforming empire. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2002 (OCoLC)606958975 |
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| 材料类型: | 政府刊物, 州政府或者省政府刊物, 互联网资源 |
| 文件类型: | 书, 互联网资源 |
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Christopher Hodgkins |
| ISBN: | 0826214312 9780826214317 |
| OCLC号码: | 50292442 |
| 描述: | xii, 290 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 内容: | Introduction: Binding Ties -- Once-and-Future Kings The "Matter of Britain" and Protestant Imperial Recovery from John Dee to Cymbeline -- The Uses of Atrocity Satanic Spaniards, Hispanic Satans, and the "Black Legend " from Las Casas to Milton -- Stooping to Conquer Heathen Idolatry, Protestant Humility, and the "White Legend" of Drake -- The Nubile Savage and the Soulless Slave Imagining Race from Pocahontas to the Colonial Color Line -- Prophets against Empire Countertraditions, 1516-1815 -- "Hollow All Delight!" Countertraditions, 1815-1945. |
| 责任: | Christopher Hodgkins. |
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摘要:
"Focusing on the work of the Protestant imagination from the Renaissance origins of English overseas colonization through the modern end of England's colonial enterprise, Hodgkins organizes his study around three kinds of religious binding - unification, subjugation, and self-restraint.
He shows how early modern Protestants like Hakluyt and Spenser reformed the Arthurian chronicles and claimed to inherit Rome's empire from the Caesars: how Ralegh and later Cromwell imagined a counterconquest of Spanish America, and how Milton's Satan came to resemble Cortes; how Drake and the fictional Crusoe established their status as worthy colonial masters by refusing to be worshiped as gods; and how seventeenth-century preachers, poets, and colonists moved haltingly toward a racist metaphysics - as Virginia began by celebrating the mixed marriage of Pocahontas but soon imposed the draconian separation of the Color Line.".
"Yet Hodgkins reveals that Tudor-Stuart times also saw the revival of Augustinian anti-expansionism and the genesis of Protestant imperial guilt. From the start, British Protestant colonialism contained its own opposite: a religion of self-restraint. Though this conscience often was co-opted or conscripted to legitimize conquests and pacify the conquered, it frequently found memorable and even fierce literary expression in writers such as Shakespeare, Daniel, Herbert, Swift, Johnson, Burke, Blake, Austen, Browning, Tennyson, Conrad, Forster, and finally the anti-Protestant Waugh. Written in a lively and accessible style, Reforming Empire will be of interest to all scholars and students of English literature."--BOOK JACKET.
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