Slavery, Colonialism, and Connoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism

ISBN-13: 9780815397106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 209 str.

Nandini Bhattacharya

Opis

Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Family jewels: George Colman's Inkle and Yarico and connoisseurship; James Cobb and colonial cacophony: doing the enlightenment in different voices; Sheridan's follies: auctioning ancestors in The School for Scandal; Transatlantic flight: Phillis Wheatley's copies with a difference; Postscript; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Nandini Bhattacharya