TY - BOOK ID - 85527678 TI - Improvisations of Empire : Thomas Pringle in Scotland, the Cape Colony and London, 1789-1834 PY - 2020 SN - 1785273795 1785273787 1785273809 PB - London : Anthem Press, DB - UniCat KW - Colonies in literature. KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - Pringle, Thomas, KW - Pringl, Tomas, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - South African poetry (English) KW - History and criticism. KW - English poetry KW - South African literature (English) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85527678 AB - 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. ER -