Scotland and the Caribbean, C.1740-1833: Atlantic Archipelagos

ISBN-13: 9781138325326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 256 str.

Michael Morris

Opis

Recovering Scotland’s memory of the black Atlantic through its long-forgotten Caribbean connections, this book re-examines Enlightenment- to Romantic-era texts to reveal Scotland’s deep cultural entanglement with Caribbean slavery. It explores the implications of this forgotten history from a world-literature perspective to suggest new directions for an archipelagic perspective in the transnational Atlantic world.  

Spis treści

Introduction: Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833  1. Theoretical Orientations: Transnationalism in the Atlantic World  2. Archipelagic Poetics: Pastoral, Georgic, and the Scoto-British Imperial Vision, c.1740-1785  3. Robert Burns: Slavery, Freedom and Abolition, 1786-1800  4. Not Immediate but Gradual: Abolition to Emancipation, 1800-1833  5. Recovering Scottish Creoles from the Caribbean  6. Joseph Knight: History, Fiction, Memory

O autorze

Michael Morris is a Lecturer in English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.