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Cover |
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Copyright |
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Contents |
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Series Editors' Preface vii Acknowledgments viii Timeline x Introduction: 'Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature' |
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Postcolonial Studies and Empire Today |
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Nation-formation and Empire in the Eighteenth Century |
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Territory, Trade Routes, War and 'Great Britain' |
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Print and Public Culture |
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Literary Creativity, Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism |
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Plan of the Book |
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1 'Theatres of Empire' |
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Davenant, the Revival of Performance, and the Thematics of Empire |
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Aphra Behn, Colonial Self-making, and the Uncertain Consolations of Romance |
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Civil Tragedy, Commercial Humanism, and Colonial Consciousness |
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2 'The Expanding Frontiers of Prose' |
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Yariko and Inkle and the Staging of Polite Culture |
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Crusoe the Merchant-adventurer |
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and Friday |
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3 'Imaginative Writing, Intellectual History, and the Horizons of British Literary Culture' |
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The Spectator, Print Culture, and the Circulation of International Value |
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The Languages of National Difference: Becoming Roderick Random |
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Luxury, Commercial Society, Enlightenment Historiography |
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4 'Perspectives from Elsewhere' |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Turkish Embassy Letters |
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Johnson's Rasselas: Philosophy in an 'Oriental' Key |
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Phillis Wheatley: Literacy, Poetry, and Slavery |
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Ukawsaw Gronniosaw: Writing in Another Voice |
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Conclusion: 'Gazing into the Future' |
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Literary Transport: to India and the South Seas |
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Bibliography |
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Further Reading |
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Index |
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http://www.myilibrary.com?id=208801 & ref=toc |
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