Fashioning Society in Eighteenth-Century British Jamaica

ISBN-13: 9781032109718 / Twarda / 2024 / 328 str.

USA) Northrop Chloe (Tarrant County College

Opis

By examining writings by women in the long eighteenth century and comparing them to contemporary sources, this book seeks to complicate the stereotypes present of overconsumption and insensibility in British Jamaica. The sentimental exchanges of material goods solidified bonds for white women separated by the Atlantic.

Spis treści

Introduction / 1. White Women in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica / 2. Jamaican Women in Sentimental Novels and Other Literature / 3. The Brodbelt Family of Jamaica / 4. Loyalists in Jamaica: The Cowper and Storrow Families / 5. "Lively Colours & Shewy": Middling and Poorer Families in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica / 6. Self-Fashioning and Material Goods: The Case of Lady Maria Nugent / Conclusion

O autorze

Chloe Northrop is a Professor of History at Tarrant County College. She received her Ph.D. in History with a Minor in Art History from the University of North Texas. Her research focuses on material culture in the Atlantic World during the long eighteenth century.