Intro -- 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 --...
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Intro -- 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.
""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""
