Scottish Colonial Literature
Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:26th Jan '23
Should be back in stock very soon
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’s Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707 is an academic text of the highest calibre on an all but forgotten period of Scottish literature. -- Jessica Reid * Bella Caledonia *
Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707 sheds new light on the Scottish literature and culture of the long seventeenth century in the context of the Scottish Atlantic, deftly examining the relationship between colonialism and utopianism in early modern Scottish colonial projects in Nova Scotia, East New Jersey and Darien. * Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University *
ISBN: 9781474464017
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240 pages