Improvisations of Empire: Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789–1834

Matthew Shum

Improvisations of Empire

Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789–1834

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Matthew Shum

Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: May 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781785273797

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest

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Improvisations of Empire offers a historical, biographical and literary study of the life and writings of Thomas Pringle (1789–1834), the son of a Lowland tenant farmer in Scotland. It examines his Scottish journalistic and literary career, his emigration to the Cape Colony as the head of a party of Scottish settlers and his subsequent relocation to London where he gained prominence as the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society and the editor of a popular annual, Friendship’s Offering. The central concern of the book is with Pringle’s poetry and his affiliated prose, and how these writings reflect the negotiation of his deeply conflicted colonial experience from the perspectives of his Scottish background, his shifting colonial locations and his subsequent period of residence in London.

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Improvisations of Empire

Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789–1834

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Introduction
pp 1-8

1 - Scotland: 1789– 1820
pp 9-38

2 - The Eastern Cape Frontier: 1820– 22
pp 39-92

3 - Cape Town and Beyond: 1822– 25
pp 93-132

4 - London: 1826– 34
pp 133-198

Conclusion
pp 199-212

Bibliography
pp 213-220

Index
pp 221-225

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