Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870

Klappentext Examines the interrelationship between Caribbean narratives and British fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung Combines literary criticism and historical analysis! examining a wide range of sources to rescue the stories of ordinary black Jamaicans and travelling African Americans from historical obscurity. At the same time! the book uses canonical fiction to show how crucial Caribbean culture was in the development of British fiction. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Realism and romance in the nineteenth-century Caribbean; 1. Creole realism and metropolitan humanitarianism; 2. Caribbean romance and subaltern history; 3. 'This fruitful matrix of curses': the interesting narrative of the life of Samuel Ringgold Ward; 4. Jamaica, genealogy, George Eliot: inheriting the empire after Morant Bay; Epilogue: 'And the sword will come from America'.

Product details

• Authors: Tim Watson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521188715
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18871-5
• No. of pages: 286
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies