Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature
by
Iannini, Christopher P., author.
Title
:
Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature
Author
:
Iannini, Christopher P., author.
ISBN
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9781469601922
Physical Description
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1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Abstract
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Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, this book connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world - the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. It argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas.
Subject Term
:
American literature -- History and criticism.
Natural history -- West Indies.
Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Slavery in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Added Corporate Author
:
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Electronic Access
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Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | [[missing key: search.ChildField.HOLDING]] | Status |
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Online Library | E-Book | 377232-1001 | ONLINE | | Elektronik Kütüphane |