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The poetics of empire : a study of James Grainger's The sugar-cane /

First published in 1764, The Sugar-Cane is a major work in the history of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is the only poem written in the Caribbean before the Twentieth Century to achieve a place in the Western ''canon''. Grainger sought to interpret his personal experience o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gilmore, John, 1956-
Otros Autores: Grainger, James, 1721?-1766
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Somerset, N.J. : Athlone Press ; Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sugar-Cane: A Poem 86
  • Grainger's Preface to the 1764 edition 88
  • Grainger's Notes to The Sugar-Cane 165
  • Appendix I "Great Homer deignd to sing of little Mice" 199
  • Appendix II Bryan and Pereene 202
  • Appendix III Colonel Martin's directions for planting and sugar-making 205
  • Appendix IV Ramsay's account of a plantation day 208.