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- Title: Cosmopolitan Empires (Book Review)
- Author : English Studies in Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 186 KB
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Jonathan Hart. Representing the New World. The English and French Uses of the Example of Spain (New York: Palgrave, 2001-351 pp. $69.95); Columbus, Shakespeare, and the Interpretation of the New World (New York: Palgrave, 2003- 231 Pp. $65.00); Comparing Empires: European Colonialism from Portuguese Expansion to the Spanish-American War (New York: Palgrave, 2003-192 Pp. $59.95). PERHAPS NO FIELD OF INQUIRY in the humanities has seen as much crossing of old disciplinary boundaries in recent years as have early modern studies. Thus, there has been an increasing tendency on the part of scholars of the (English) Renaissance to look outward and (mainly) westward across the Atlantic; (1) of early Americanists (traditionally beholden to their tasks of explaining the "colonial" origins of a later "American" literature) to look eastward, toward the "Atlantic" imperial culture of which they were a part; (2) of scholars in "English" (whether their expertise be in American or British literature, in the Renaissance, or the eighteenth century) to read texts traditionally claimed by other modern languages, such as "Spanish" or "French"; and, vice versa, of scholars of Romance languages to take account of developments in English studies. (3)