1st Edition
Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 Atlantic Archipelagos
By Michael Morris
Copyright 2015
270 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
270 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
270 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland’s economic, social and cultural development, and draws out the implications for current debates on Scotland’s national narratives of... Read more
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
Biography
Michael Morris is a Lecturer in English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.
