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Series Editors' Preface vii
Acknowledgments viii
Timeline x
Introduction: 'Towards a Postcolonial History of Eighteenth-century English Literature' 1
Postcolonial Studies and Empire Today 1
Nation-formation and Empire in the Eighteenth Century 4
Territory, Trade Routes, War and 'Great Britain' 15
Print and Public Culture 18
Literary Creativity, Literary Criticism, Postcolonial Criticism 22
Plan of the Book 26
1 'Theatres of Empire' 35
Davenant, the Revival of Performance, and the Thematics of Empire 36
Aphra Behn, Colonial Self-making, and the Uncertain Consolations of Romance 50
Civil Tragedy, Commercial Humanism, and Colonial Consciousness 56
2 'The Expanding Frontiers of Prose' 61
Yariko and Inkle and the Staging of Polite Culture 64
Crusoe the Merchant-adventurer - and Friday 67
3 'Imaginative Writing, Intellectual History, and the Horizons of British Literary Culture' 84
The Spectator, Print Culture, and the Circulation of International Value 87
The Languages of National Difference: Becoming Roderick Random 95
Luxury, Commercial Society, Enlightenment Historiography 108
4 'Perspectives from Elsewhere' 120
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and her Turkish Embassy Letters 123
Johnson's Rasselas: Philosophy in an 'Oriental' Key 126
Phillis Wheatley: Literacy, Poetry, and Slavery 133
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw: Writing in Another Voice 143
Conclusion: 'Gazing into the Future' 155
Literary Transport: to India and the South Seas 156
Bibliography 166
Further Reading 181
Index 185
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