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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... suggests that this resistance “is symptomatic of a more lasting unwillingness to consider ideologies of empire as part of political theory or the history of political thought.”11 While no one can reasonably fault recent literary ...
... suggests that this resistance “is symptomatic of a more lasting unwillingness to consider ideologies of empire as part of political theory or the history of political thought.”11 While no one can reasonably fault recent literary ...
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... suggesting something like universal , catholic appeal.17 Undoubtedly Dee and Hakluyt write as universalists . They announce explic- itly from the outset that what they seek in these antiquities is indeed a kind of all - encompassing and ...
... suggesting something like universal , catholic appeal.17 Undoubtedly Dee and Hakluyt write as universalists . They announce explic- itly from the outset that what they seek in these antiquities is indeed a kind of all - encompassing and ...
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... suggests that, after all, the Britons were inferior only to themselves, that nothing could defeat native British might but British weakness and God's own chastening hand. Even more suggestively, the sign of this impending providential ...
... suggests that, after all, the Britons were inferior only to themselves, that nothing could defeat native British might but British weakness and God's own chastening hand. Even more suggestively, the sign of this impending providential ...
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... suggests that he is intuiting his connection not only to a royal but to an imperial destiny . As Merlin will soon tell Britomart in book 3 , and as his historical referent John Dee had told Elizabeth since the 1570s : Renowmed kings ...
... suggests that he is intuiting his connection not only to a royal but to an imperial destiny . As Merlin will soon tell Britomart in book 3 , and as his historical referent John Dee had told Elizabeth since the 1570s : Renowmed kings ...
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... suggests Jehovah or God the Father : this Jove is a monotheistic , providential deity who ordains “ crosses ” to ... suggesting both its fall to near extinction and its derivation from ancient native strength . His father , we are told ...
... suggests Jehovah or God the Father : this Jove is a monotheistic , providential deity who ordains “ crosses ” to ... suggesting both its fall to near extinction and its derivation from ancient native strength . His father , we are told ...
Índice
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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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