Reforming Empire: Protestant Colonialism and Conscience in British LiteratureUniversity of Missouri Press, 2002 - 304 páginas ""The strength of Empire," wrote Ben Jonson, "is in religion." In Reforming Empire, Christopher Hodgkins takes Jonson's dictum as his point of departure, showing how for more than four centuries the Protestant imagination gave the British Empire its main paradigms for dominion and also, ironically, its chief languages of anti-imperial dissent. From Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene to Rudyard Kipling's "The Man Who Would Be King," English literature about empire has turned with strange constancy to themes of worship and idolatry, atrocity and deliverance, slavery and service, conversion, prophecy, apostasy, and doom." "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 |
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... English literature—Protestant authors—History and criticism. 2. Imperialism in literature. 3. Protestantism and literature. 4. Conscience in literature. 5. Colonies in literature. I. Title. PR408.I53 H63 2002 820.9'358—dc21 O TMThis ...
... English literature—Protestant authors—History and criticism. 2. Imperialism in literature. 3. Protestantism and literature. 4. Conscience in literature. 5. Colonies in literature. I. Title. PR408.I53 H63 2002 820.9'358—dc21 O TMThis ...
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... English Protes- tantism's literary imagination had made essential and enduring contributions to a shared sense of ... English overseas expansion between 1558 and 1625. Wright's his- toricist thesis — that Protestantism gave the English ...
... English Protes- tantism's literary imagination had made essential and enduring contributions to a shared sense of ... English overseas expansion between 1558 and 1625. Wright's his- toricist thesis — that Protestantism gave the English ...
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... English to imagine , take , and hold a British Empire ; but I also seek to explain how that same religion compelled many of the English , from the time of the empire's beginning , to foresee and desire its end . From the start , English ...
... English to imagine , take , and hold a British Empire ; but I also seek to explain how that same religion compelled many of the English , from the time of the empire's beginning , to foresee and desire its end . From the start , English ...
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... English colonization and anti- colonialism ; I also pursue these threads through the empire's Augustan growth to its Victorian climax and twentieth - century end . My project begins by asking what special powers the religious ...
... English colonization and anti- colonialism ; I also pursue these threads through the empire's Augustan growth to its Victorian climax and twentieth - century end . My project begins by asking what special powers the religious ...
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... English Protestantism was at its most anti - imperial when it was , like many of the first reformers , at its most Augustinian — that is , when it understood empire not mainly as a vehicle for the ingathering of far - flung souls but ...
... English Protestantism was at its most anti - imperial when it was , like many of the first reformers , at its most Augustinian — that is , when it understood empire not mainly as a vehicle for the ingathering of far - flung souls but ...
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Two The Uses of Atrocity | 54 |
Three Stooping to Conquer | 77 |
Four The Nubile Savage and the Soulless Slave | 113 |
Five Prophets against Empire | 137 |
Six Hollow All Delight | 191 |
Moravians in the Moon | 241 |
Index | 267 |
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Reforming Empire: Protestant Colonialism and Conscience in British Literature Christopher Hodgkins Vista previa restringida - 2002 |
Reforming Empire: Protestant Colonialism and Conscience in British Literature Christopher Hodgkins Vista de fragmentos - 2002 |
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