Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries: British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814

ISBN-13: 9780198836377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Sean Moore

Opis

This volume explores how profits from slavery underpinned the dissemination of British literature in America during the eighteenth century and how the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital.

Recenzje

The power of this overall argument owes its success, as much as anything, to the effectiveness of the book's structure. Each of the book's five chapters has a dual focus: first, on the history of one of the major pre-Revolutionary libraries in the North American colonies, and second, on a particular literary text circulating among that library's members that illuminates a particular community of readers in a unique way. Ezra Tawil, Modern Language Review

O autorze

Sean Moore is the Editor of the international journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the author of Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010), which won the Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). He has published in PMLA, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Atlantic Studies, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, and other journals and essay collections. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Ireland as a graduate student, and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Library Company of Philadelphia, Folger Library, John Carter Brown Library, Newport Mansions, and other institutions.