Colonial Transformations

The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World,1580-1640

R. Bach

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781137080998
• Print ISBN:
  9780312230999

Colonial Transformations covers early modern English poetry and plays, Gaelic poetry, and a wide range of English colonial propaganda. In the book, Bach contends that England's colonial ambitions surface in all of its literary texts. Those texts played multiple roles in England's colonial expansions and emerging imperialism. Those roles included publicizing colonial efforts, defining some people as white and some as barbarians, constituting enduring stereotypes of native people, and resisting official versions of colonial encounters.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Colonial Transformations
• Chapter 1 Colonial Poetics in Spenser's Amoretti
• Chapter 2 Bermuda's Ireland: Naming the Colonial World
• Chapter 3 The New Atlantic World Transformed on the London Stage
• Chapter 4 Colonial Transformations in Court and City Entertainments
• Chapter 5 "A Virginia Maske"
• Epilogue: Late-Twentieth-Century Transformations: Pocahontas and Captain John Smith in Late-Twentieth-Century Jamestown
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index