Improvisations of Empire : Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789-1834 / Matthew Shum.
Shum, Matthew| Call Number | 821.7 |
| Author | Shum, Matthew, author. |
| Title | Improvisations of Empire : Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789-1834 / Matthew Shum. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 May 2020). |
| Summary | Improvisations of Empire offers a historical, biographical and literary study of the life and writings of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), the son of a Lowland tenant farmer in Scotland. It examines his Scottish journalistic and literary career, his emigration to the Cape Colony as the head of a party of Scottish settlers and his subsequent relocation to London where he gained prominence as the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and the editor of a popular annual, Friendship’s Offering. The central concern of the book is with Pringle’s poetry and his affiliated prose, and how these writings reflect the negotiation of his deeply conflicted colonial experience from the perspectives of his Scottish background, his shifting colonial locations and his subsequent period of residence in London. |
| Subject | Pringle, Thomas, 1789-1834. Pringle, Thomas, 1789-1834 Criticism and interpretation. IMPERIALISM IN LITERATURE. South African poetry (English) History and criticism. |
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| Summary | Improvisations of Empire offers a historical, biographical and literary study of the life and writings of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), the son of a Lowland tenant farmer in Scotland. It examines his Scottish journalistic and literary career, his emigration to the Cape Colony as the head of a party of Scottish settlers and his subsequent relocation to London where he gained prominence as the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and the editor of a popular annual, Friendship’s Offering. The central concern of the book is with Pringle’s poetry and his affiliated prose, and how these writings reflect the negotiation of his deeply conflicted colonial experience from the perspectives of his Scottish background, his shifting colonial locations and his subsequent period of residence in London. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 May 2020). |
| Subject | Pringle, Thomas, 1789-1834. Pringle, Thomas, 1789-1834 Criticism and interpretation. IMPERIALISM IN LITERATURE. South African poetry (English) History and criticism. |
| Multimedia |