Scottish Colonial Literature - (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultu) by Kirsten Sandrock (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s).</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). Analysing works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic, it examines how the Atlantic influenced seventeenth-century Scottish literature and vice versa. The relationship between art and ideology is key to the author's discussion as Sandrock argues early modern writing employed utopianism as a tool for empire-building and as a means of claiming power over the Atlantic.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Brings together previously dispersed sources to argue for a tradition of Scottish colonial writing before the Union of Parliaments This book focuses on three undertakings at Nova Scotia (1620s), East New Jersey (1680s) and the Isthmus of Panama, then known as Darien (1690s). Analysing works written in the larger context of the Scottish Atlantic, it examines how the Atlantic influenced seventeenth-century Scottish literature and vice versa. The relationship between art and ideology is key to the author's discussion as Sandrock argues early modern writing employed utopianism as a tool for empire-building and as a means of claiming power over the Atlantic. Kirsten Sandrock is Assistant Professor at the English Department at the University of Goettingen, Germany.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Kirsten Sandrock is Lecturer in English Philology at the University of Goettingen in Germany. She is the author of <i>Gender and Region: Maritime Fiction in English by Canadian Women, 1976-2005</i> (Wissner, 2009). She has published on Atlantic literature, early modern literature, Canadian studies, Scottish literature and culture and postcolonial literatures.<p>
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