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Book Warfare  Trade  and the Indies in British Literature  1652   1771

Download or read book Warfare Trade and the Indies in British Literature 1652 1771 written by Peter Craft and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652–1771 demonstrates how British travel narratives of the long eighteenth century distinguished between Mughal and American “Indians.” Through a New Historical and postcolonial lens, it argues that the distinction between East and West “Indians” was widely recognized and shaped British people’s tendency to view Mughal Indians as similar and in some ways even superior to Europeans while they disdained native populations in the Americas. Drawing on representations of “Indians” in Peter Heylyn’s critically neglected 1652 Cosmographie as well as representations in the works of canonical literary authors such as John Dryden, Richard Steele, and Henry Mackenzie, this monograph provides a more nuanced account of the origins and (d)evolution of “Indian” stereotypes than scholars have to date. A text committed to the exposure and eradication of colonial rhetoric and violence, Peter Craft’s Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652–1771 proposes a modification of Saidian postcolonial theory that better applies to texts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Book Warfare  Trade  and the Indies in British Literature  1652 1771

Download or read book Warfare Trade and the Indies in British Literature 1652 1771 written by Peter Craft and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature traces the differences in representations of Mughal and American "Indians" in travel narratives of the long eighteenth century. It contributes to the exposure and eradication of colonial rhetoric and violence by accounting for the origins and (d)evolution of different "Indian" stereotypes.

Book Historical Abstracts

Download or read book Historical Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Amorphous

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Craft
  • Publisher : BookRix
  • Release : 2018-05-23
  • ISBN : 3743869381
  • Pages : 16 pages

Download or read book Amorphous written by Peter Craft and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucinda Williams wakes up from a coma weeks after a deadly car accident in the town of Bedlam. While coming to terms with this tragedy, a mysterious presence compounds her despair by tormenting her as she dreams. Meanwhile, Valarie Harper, a real estate agent in Bedlam, is haunted by a property she cannot get rid of, and finds herself sickened by fear the house impresses upon her and potential buyers. Valarie and Ethan Trawler, a detective investigating multiple mysterious deaths in Bedlam, set out to investigate the insidious history of the house. When the mysteries of Lucinda’s dreams converge with Valarie and Ethan’s investigation of the house, they will be forced to face an evil that will threaten their very souls in Amorphous, a novel by Peter Craft. Buy on Amazon books today!

Book The Century Cyclopedia of Names

Download or read book The Century Cyclopedia of Names written by Smith and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Effeminate Years

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  • Author : Declan Kavanagh
  • Publisher : Bucknell University Press
  • Release : 2017-06-23
  • ISBN : 1611488257
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Effeminate Years written by Declan Kavanagh and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefully excluding others on the basis of their perceived effeminacy or foreignness. However, this book is not a literary analysis of the Wilkes affair in the 1760s, nor is it a linear account of Wilkes’s political career. Instead, Effeminate Years examines the cultural crisis of effeminacy that made Wilkes’s politicking so appealing. The central theoretical problem that this study addresses is the argument about what is and is not political: where does individual autonomy begin and end? Addressing this question, Kavanagh traces the shaping influence of the discourse of effeminacy in the literature that was generated by Wilkes’s legal and sexual scandals, while, at the same time, he also reads Wilkes’s spectacular drumming up of support as a timely exploitation of the broader cultural crisis of effeminacy during the mid century in Britain. The book begins with the scandals and agitations surrounding Wilkes, and ends with readings of Edmund Burke’s (1729-1797) earliest political writings, which envisage political community—a vision, that Kavanagh argues, is influenced by Wilkes and the effeminate years of the 1760s. Throughout, Kavanagh shows how interlocutors in the political and cultural debates of the mid-eighteenth-century period in Britain, such as Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) and Arthur Murphy (1727-1805), attempt to resolve the problem of effeminate excess. In part, the resolution for Wilkes and Charles Churchill (1731-1764) was to shunt effeminacy onto the sexually non-normative. On the other hand, Burke, in his aesthetic theorization of the beautiful privileges the socially constitutive affects of feeling effeminate. Through an analysis of poetry, fiction, social and economic pamphlets, aesthetic treatises, journalism and correspondences, placed within the latest queer historiography, Kavanagh demonstrates that the mid-century effeminacy crisis served to re-conceive male heterosexuality as the very mark of political legitimacy. Overall, Effeminate Years explores the development of modern ideas of masculinity and the political subject, which are still the basis of debate and argument in our own time.

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia  The Century Cyclopedia of names

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia The Century Cyclopedia of names written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Cyclopedia of Names

Download or read book The Century Cyclopedia of Names written by Benjamin Eli Smith and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Download or read book The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: