The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's the Sugar-Cane,9780485115390

The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's the Sugar-Cane

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ISBN13: 9780485115390
ISBN10: 0485115395
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-11-01
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury USA Academic
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Summary

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 wrote a "West India Georgic", challenging assumptions about poetic diction and the proper subject matter of poetry, and boldly asserting the importance of the Caribbean to the eighteenth-century British empire. This is the first reliable text and critical study of the poem, setting it within the context of Grainger's life and work.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements viii
Abbreviations x
Introduction 1(66)
Notes to Introduction
67(19)
The Sugar-Cane: A Poem 86(113)
Grainger's Preface to the 1764 edition
88(3)
Book I
91(20)
Book II
111(16)
Book III
127(18)
Book IV
145(54)
Grainger's Notes to The Sugar-Cane
165(34)
Appendix I: ``Great Homer deignd to sing of little Mice'' 199(3)
Appendix II: Bryan and Pereene 202(3)
Appendix III: Colonel Martin's directions for planting and sugar-making 205(3)
Appendix IV: Ramsay's account of a plantation day 208(5)
Additional Notes to The Sugar-Cane 213(100)
Bibliography 313(20)
Index 333

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