Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:42:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Flanagan III <flanagan-AT-odin.english.udel.edu> Subject: RE: Empires Re-done I had the same response...there's no real short answer to the question of how to compare Roman and British empires. You may, however, want to reconceive the quesiton a bit. Perhaps you could look at how the British themselves saw the comparison, and thus focus on how the Roman Empire was represented within British/English texts (the distinction is used to signify writing before the 18th century. As far as I know, there is only one queen of Great Britain named Elizabeth. That doesn't prevent people from talking about Elizabeth II--which says a lot about how the term "British" simply disguises the "English" conquest of the isles). Renaissance literature could be a good place to start--Shakespeare's Roman plays as an example of proto-British Empire, for example. There's also the famous opening scene in *Heart of Darkness* Joe --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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