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 debate on Value and trade through aesthetic metaphors and discourse, thus disguising the distasteful nature of the ownership and ...
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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 debate on Value and trade through aesthetic metaphors and discourse, thus disguising the distasteful nature of the ownership and exchange of human beings and mitigating the guilt associated with that traffic. Bhattacharya explores the circumatlantic redefinition of Taste and Value as cultural and moral concepts in gender and racial discourses in slave-owning, colonizing, and connoisseurial Britain, and demonstrates how Value and aesthetics were redefined in late eighteenth-century circumatlantic discourses with particular focus on the language of slavery, trade and connoisseurship. She also delineates the workings of transnational consciousness and experience of race, class, gender, slavery, colonialism and connoisseurship in the late eighteenth-century circumatlantic rim. Throughout the study, Bhattacharya rereads late eighteenth-century British literature as a stage for the articulation of theories of difference and domination.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2005032499 Type of material Book Personal name Bhattacharya, Nandini, 1964-Main title Slavery, colonialism, and connoisseurship: gender and eighteenth-century literary transnationalism / Nandini Bhattacharya. Published/Created Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2006. Description viii, 201 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 0754603539 (alk. paper) 9780754603535 LC classification PR448. C64 B47 2006 LC Subjects English literature--18th century--History and criticism. Colonies in literature. Nationalism in literature. Slavery in literature. Women and literature--England--History--18th century. Literature and society--England--History--18th century. Transnationalism. England--Civilization--18th century. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-191) and index. Dewey class no. 820.9/358 Geographic area code e-uk-en National bib no. GBA638856 National bib agency no. 013442800 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocm62421080
