Product Description: This is the first full-length study of emerging Anglo-American science fiction’s relation to the history, discourses, and ideologies of colonialism and imperialism. Nearly all scholars and critics of early science fiction acknowledge that colonialism is an important and relevant part of its historical context, and recent scholarship has emphasized imperialism’s impact on late Victorian Gothic and adventure fiction and on Anglo-American popular and literary culture in general...read more

Product Description: Although missionaries have challenging and important work that doesn't mean they don't have fun. In Jewels For His Crown, authors John and Grace Rieder tell about their 36 years in Ivory Coast, West Africa. They worked among the Gouro people, evangelizing, translating the Bible, teaching, and establishing churches...read more

Product Description: This book engages a controversy over the relationship between Wordsworth's poetry and his politics, dating back to the early reviews of the Lyrical Ballads. Rieder argues that Wordsworth's poetry achieves its power by projecting a fantasy of community that finds its material counterpart far more in the literature itself than in the rural occupations or natural scenes Wordsworth depicts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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