Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 14:16:55 -0400 From: Maria Lima <lima-AT-geneseo.edu> Subject: RE: Empires Re-done Actually, there is a huge difference bewteen Imperialism and Empire. A book that did help me a lot when I was trying to sort it all out is Michael W. Doyle's EMPIRES (Cornell UP, 1986). If I had the time I sould summarize the chapters on "Rome" and "Great Britain," but I don't right now. Sorry :( At 12:42 PM 7/10/2000 -0400, you wrote: >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 --- > Maria Helena Lima Associate Professor Department of English SUNY Geneseo Geneseo, NY 14454 Phone: (716)245-5242 Fax # 5181 Email: lima-AT-geneseo.edu --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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