Free Download Laurie Ellinghausen, "Ships of State: Literature and the Seaman’s Labour in Proto-Imperial Britain"
English | ISBN: 1487529473 | 2024 | 216 pages | EPUB, PDF | 518 KB + 4 MB
The ideological roots of the British Empire have been widely discussed in early modern studies, as have maritime settings in the period’s imaginative writing. However, these perspectives have not adequately accounted for how literature’s evolving representations of the common British seaman shaped the early stages of public discourse about Britain’s imperial endeavours. Filling that gap in scholarship, Ships of State argues that literary representations of seaborne labour play a distinct and crucial role in the early formation of British imperial attitudes.