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1 online resource (x, 342 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-332) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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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 sought to interpret his personal experience of the Caribbean through his wide and deep reading in literature, from the Greeks to Milton. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grainger, James, 1721?-1766. Sugar cane.
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Grainger, James. Sugar cane. |
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Grainger, James. Sugar-cane. |
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Didactic poetry, English -- History and criticism.
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Didactic poetry, English. |
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Plantation life in literature.
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Plantation life in literature. |
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Sugarcane industry -- Poetry.
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Sugarcane industry. |
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Poetry.
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Imperialism in literature.
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Imperialism in literature. |
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Agriculture in literature.
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Agriculture in literature. |
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Plantation life -- Poetry.
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Plantation life. |
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Imperialism -- Poetry.
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Imperialism. |
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Sugarcane -- Poetry.
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Sugarcane. |
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Caribbean Area -- In literature.
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Caribbean Area. |
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Caribbean Area -- Poetry.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Grainger, James, 1721?-1766.
Sugar cane.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gilmore, John, 1956- Poetics of empire. London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed in the U.S. by Transaction Publishers, 2000 (DLC) 99054614 |
| ISBN |
1847143822 (electronic book) |
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9781847143822 (electronic book) |
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9780485121483 |
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9781847143822 |
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0485115395 (alk.) |
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0485121484 (alkaline paper) |
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9780485115390 (alk.) |
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