Oracles of empire : poetry, politics, and commerce in British America, 1690-1750 / David S. Shields
1990. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443947
ISBN: 0226752984
Physical description: xiv, 295, 23 cm. Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Issue of Empire in the Literary Self-Understanding of British Americans -- Part One. The British Empire and the Poetry of Commerce -- Chapter 1. The Literary Topology of Mercantilism -- Chapter 2. The Tide of Empire -- Imperium Pelagi -- ""The Sea-Piece"" -- The Tribulations of Columbus -- Blood and Brine -- Chapter 3. The Material Redeemers -- The Archetype of Liberty and Law -- The Benefactor -- Chapter 4. Staples -- Trading Weed -- Dyer's ""Fleece"" -- ""Indico"" -- ""The Sugar-Cane"" -- Islands of Iniquity -- The Deserted Plantation.
Heroic Agriculture -- Part Two. The Paper Wars Over the Prerogative -- Chapter 5. The Problem of the Prerogative -- Chapter 6. The Paper Wars in Massachusetts -- Old Charter -- The Pharaoh of Prerogative -- The Passing of the Mantle -- The Problem of Old Sarum's Son -- ""Belcher Apostate"" -- Chapter 7. The Spread of Boston Principles -- The Keeper -- The Power of Fable -- ""The Mock Monarchy or Kingdom of Apes"" -- Bestial Riddles -- Ballad War -- The Riddle -- Part Three. The Rhetoric of Imperial Animosity -- Chapter 8. Empire of Evil -- ""Zeuma -- or, The Love of Liberty"" (1729)
The War of Jenkins' Ear -- Chapter 9. Gallic Perfidy -- Antichrist in the Wilderness -- The Violence of Popular Feeling -- ""Indian Songs of Peace"" -- The Conquest of Louisbourg -- Chapter 10. The Tenuousness of Imperial Identity -- The Sum of All Prophecies -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Canada -- New England -- New York and New Jersey -- Pennsylvania -- The Chesopean Colonies -- The Carolinas -- Georgia -- West Indies -- Metropolitan Writings -- Index. Subjects: 1600-1799. American poetry Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism. Political poetry, American History and criticism. Imperialism in literature. Commerce in literature. Colonies in literature.
Price: €21.95