1st Edition
Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism
By Nandini Bhattacharya
Copyright 2006
209 Pages
by
Routledge
209 Pages
by
Routledge
209 Pages
by
Routledge
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Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about Value and Taste. Writers re-presented the ethical... Read more
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.
Biography
Nandini Bhattacharya
