Atlantic Circulations

Auteur

Edward Holberton is Associate Professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Bristol, UK. His previous publications include Poetry and the Cromwellian Protectorate: Culture, Politics, and Institutions (2009), and as co-editor (with Martin Dzelzainis), The Oxford Handbook of Andrew Marvell (2019).

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Atlantic Circulations investigates literary conversations about empire in the British Atlantic world, c.1650-1750.

Résumé
Atlantic Circulations investigates literary conversations about empire in the British Atlantic world, c.1650-1750.

Contenu

1. Introduction

2. 'Readie to passe to the American strand': Herbert's The Temple, Anne Bradstreet and Edward Taylor

3. Reading the Revolution in Ulster and Maryland: William Trail's Miscellany, 1679-1690

4. Scotland in the Atlantic World: Literary Responses to the Darien Crisis

5. The Commercial Atlantic: John Dunton's 'A Summer's Ramble' and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

6. Milton and Toleration in the Early Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World: Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, and Benjamin Lay

7. The Barbados Gazette and the Lyrics of Martha Fowke Sansom

8. James Thomson's The Seasons, British Union, and the Empire of the Seas

9. Conclusion