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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... Roman — that is , postcolonial because postpapal . The revival of native identity and the related rejection of “ popery ” powerfully shaped the kingdom's own claim to the translatio imperii , the inheritance of Caesar's mantle ...
... Roman — that is , postcolonial because postpapal . The revival of native identity and the related rejection of “ popery ” powerfully shaped the kingdom's own claim to the translatio imperii , the inheritance of Caesar's mantle ...
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... Roman — that is , postcolonial because postpapal . Protestants saw the recently rejected papists as having prolonged for a millennium the worst aspects of Roman imperial rule . Thus to Elizabethans and Jacobeans a renewed “ British ...
... Roman — that is , postcolonial because postpapal . Protestants saw the recently rejected papists as having prolonged for a millennium the worst aspects of Roman imperial rule . Thus to Elizabethans and Jacobeans a renewed “ British ...
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... Roman imperial discipline but also was seduced and undermined by Roman dissipation . However , for all of these writers , the potential and apparent conflicts between these alternative pasts are secondary to their shared belief in an ...
... Roman imperial discipline but also was seduced and undermined by Roman dissipation . However , for all of these writers , the potential and apparent conflicts between these alternative pasts are secondary to their shared belief in an ...
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... Roman conquest in The City of God warned against confusing human kingdoms with those of Christ.4 This otherworldly loyalty helps to explain why some early English reformers had little use for the promised return of their island's own ...
... Roman conquest in The City of God warned against confusing human kingdoms with those of Christ.4 This otherworldly loyalty helps to explain why some early English reformers had little use for the promised return of their island's own ...
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... Roman power in Eu- rope, which Geoffrey understands as a restoration of earlier British sovereignty and as the fulfillment of Diana's oracle to Brutus: [In Britain] by thy sons again shall Troy be builded; There of thy blood shall Kings ...
... Roman power in Eu- rope, which Geoffrey understands as a restoration of earlier British sovereignty and as the fulfillment of Diana's oracle to Brutus: [In Britain] by thy sons again shall Troy be builded; There of thy blood shall Kings ...
Índice
10 | |
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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