Ebook: Imperial characters: home and periphery in eighteenth-century literature

Introduction. Roaming the globe: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and Robert Louis Stevenson's Master of Ballantrae -- Global nationalisms: Alexander Pope's Windsor-forest and James Thomson's Seasons -- Familial identifications: Daniel Defoe's Colonel Jack and Moll Flanders and Tobias Smollett's Humphry Clinker; between empires: Wollstonecraft's Maria, or, The wrongs of woman -- Peripheral visions: Robert Bage's Hermsprong and Elizabeth Hamilton's Letters of a Hindoo rajah -- Rhetorical manipulations: Walter Scott's Guy Mannering and The surgeon's daughter.