Reforming empire: Protestant colonialism and conscience in British literature

Introduction: Binding Ties

Once-and-Future Kings The "Matter of Britain" and Protestant Imperial Recovery from John Dee to Cymbeline

The Uses of Atrocity Satanic Spaniards, Hispanic Satans, and the "Black Legend " from Las Casas to Milton

Stooping to Conquer Heathen Idolatry, Protestant Humility, and the "White Legend" of Drake

The Nubile Savage and the Soulless Slave Imagining Race from Pocahontas to the Colonial Color Line

Prophets against Empire Countertraditions, 1516-1815

"Hollow All Delight!" Countertraditions, 1815-1945.