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Atlantic studies
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early modern empire
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Scottish colonialism
Scottish literature and culture
seventeenth-century Scotland
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utopian literature
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- ISBN 9781474464017
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Brings together previously dispersed sources to argue for a tradition of Scottish colonial writing before the Union of Parliaments
Offers the first comprehensive study of Scottish colonial literature before 1707
Focus on Scotland contributes to the diversification of studies on the early British Empire
Provides a fresh argument about Atlantic writing contributing to the transformation of utopian literature from a fictional to a reformist genre
Enters debates about Scotland's position in colonial and postcolonial studies through its focus on pre-1707 Atlantic literature
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 Chair of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg. Her research ranges from the early modern literature and culture to contemporary Anglophone studies, and she has published widely on intercultural encounters, colonial and postcolonial studies, Shakespeare, travel writing, gender and genre studies. She is the author of Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603–1707 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), co-editor of Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions (2013) and of the Shakespeare Seminar Online.
