Transatlantic Engagements With the British Eighteenth Century

Informationen zum Autor Pamela J.Albert Klappentext Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century culture through the lens of creative works by contemporary African and Caribbean writers who engage with the modes of storytelling that emerged in England during the heyday of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Zusammenfassung Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century culture through the lens of creative works by contemporary African and Caribbean writers who engage with the modes of storytelling that emerged in England during the heyday of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Pamela Albert, Pamela J. Albert, Pamela J. (Pamela Albert Albert, ALBERT PAMELA, Albert Pamela J.
• Assisted by: William E. Cain (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2007
• EAN: 9780415957434
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95743-4
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: postcolonial literature