Series Editors' Preface | p. vii |
Acknowledgments | p. viii |
Timeline | p. x |
Introduction: 'Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature' | p. 1 |
Postcolonial Studies and Empire Today | p. 1 |
Nation-formation and Empire in the Eighteenth Century | p. 4 |
Territory, Trade Routes, War and 'Great Britain' | p. 15 |
Print and Public Culture | p. 18 |
Literary Creativity, Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism | p. 22 |
Plan of the Book | p. 26 |
'Theatres of Empire' | p. 35 |
Davenant, the Revival of Performance, and the Thematics of Empire | p. 36 |
Aphra Behn, Colonial Self-making, and the Uncertain Consolations of Romance | p. 50 |
Civil Tragedy, Commercial Humanism, and Colonial Consciousness | p. 56 |
'The Expanding Frontiers of Prose' | p. 61 |
Yariko and Inkle and the Staging of Polite Culture | p. 64 |
Crusoe the Merchant-adventurer - and Friday | p. 67 |
'Imaginative Writing, Intellectual History, and the Horizons of British Literary Culture' | p. 84 |
The Spectator, Print Culture, and the Circulation of International Value | p. 87 |
The Languages of National Difference: Becoming Roderick Random | p. 95 |
Luxury, Commercial Society, Enlightenment Historiography | p. 108 |
'Perspectives from Elsewhere' | p. 120 |
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Turkish Embassy Letters | p. 123 |
Johnson's Rasselas: Philosophy in an 'Oriental' Key | p. 126 |
Phillis Wheatley: Literacy, Poetry, and Slavery | p. 133 |
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw: Writing in Another Voice | p. 143 |
Conclusion: 'Gazing into the Future' | p. 155 |
Literary Transport: to India and the South Seas | p. 156 |
Bibliography | p. 166 |
Further Reading | p. 181 |
Index | p. 185 |
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