1st Edition
Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century
By Pamela J. Albert
Copyright 2008
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century cultural artifacts through the lens of creative works produced by contemporary writers Beryl Gilroy (Guyana), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and David Dabydeen (Guyana). While early studies of post-colonization literature focused on how revisions of historical works "write back" to the... Read more
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transatlantic RetrospectionsChapter One: Reading Periodically: Beryl Gilroy’s Inkle and Yarico and Richard Steele’s Spectator No. 11Chapter Two: Novel Poetics and Pantomimes: Derek Walcott’s Crusoe Poems, Pantomime, and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson CrusoeChapter Three: Satire’s Spectacles: Wole Soyinka’s Gulliver and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsChapter Four: Visual and Textual Narratives: David Dabydeen’s A Harlot’s Progress and William Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress Chapter Five: Literary Impersonations: Beryl Gilroy’s Stedman and Joanna and John Gabriel Stedman’s Journal and NarrativeEpilogue: Global RetrospectionsNotesBibliographyIndex
Biography
Pamela J.Albert
