Fatal Revolutions (eBook)

Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature

Christopher P. Iannini (Autor)

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2013
320 Seiten
Omohundro Institute and Unc Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-3818-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini 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. Iannini 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. In fact, eighteenth-century natural history as a literary genre largely took its shape from its practice in the Caribbean, an oft-studied region that was a prime source of wealth for all of Europe and the Americas.The formal evolution of colonial prose narrative, Ianinni argues, was contingent upon the emergence of natural history writing, which itself emerged necessarily from within the context of Atlantic slavery and the production of tropical commodities. As he reestablishes the history of cultural exchange between the Caribbean and North America, Ianinni recovers the importance of the West Indies in the formation of American literary and intellectual culture as well as its place in assessing the moral implications of colonial slavery.

Autor

Christopher P. Iannini is associate professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Reihe/Serie: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
• Zusatzinfo: 8 color plates., 17 halftones, notes, index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: American Enlightenment • American literature Colonial period 1600-1775 History and criticism • American literature Revolution 1775-1783 History and criticism • American Philosophical Society • American Revolution Cultural aspects • Atlantic World • colonial Florida • Colonialism • Colonial Louisiana • colonial South Carolina • colonial williamsburg • Cuba • Empiricism • Enlightenment • Environmental literature History and Criticism • Greater Caribbean • Haitian Revolution 1791-1804 Literature and the revolution • history of the Caribbean Area To 1810 • imperialism • Jamaica • J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur • J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur • John James Audubon/ colonial Bahamas • Mark Catesby 1683-1749 • Natural History • Royal Society • Royal Society for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge, London • Saint-Domingue • Scientific Illustration • Scientific Revolution • Scientific writing / • Scientific Writing • Sir Hans Sloane • Slavery in literature • Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826 • Triangle trade • United States Nationalism • West Indian literature (English) History and criticism • West India trade • William Bartram 1739-1823
• ISBN-10: 0-8078-3818-7 / 0807838187
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3818-1 / 9780807838181