“The Passions of Empire: Sense and Conquest in Jacobean London”
5:00pm - 7:30pm /
Thursday 23rd February 2017
/ Venue: Seminar Room 10 Rendall Building
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- Dr Harald Braun
- Suitable for: Anybody interested in the topic, including university staff and students and members of the public.
- Admission: Admission is free. Please contact Harald Braun to register hbraun@liverpool.ac.uk
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This event is organised by the Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (LCMRS).
In the early seventeenth century, the Jacobean ‘empire’ praised by colonial proponents was little more than a few scattered Virginian plantations along the banks of the James River. The outpouring of literature in London, however, suggested differently.
Rather than focus on propaganda aimed primarily at encouraging mass migration, this paper will concentrate on how gentlemen - those often best informed on the actual situation in Virginia at the time - reconciled a Protestant vision of benign planting alongside a glorification of a sensuous, Edenic world waiting to be ‘ravished’.
Speaker: Lauren Working
In the early seventeenth century, the Jacobean ‘empire’ praised by colonial proponents was little more than a few scattered Virginian plantations along the banks of the James River. The outpouring of literature in London, however, suggested differently.
Rather than focus on propaganda aimed primarily at encouraging mass migration, this paper will concentrate on how gentlemen - those often best informed on the actual situation in Virginia at the time - reconciled a Protestant vision of benign planting alongside a glorification of a sensuous, Edenic world waiting to be ‘ravished’.
Speaker: Lauren Working