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Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 : Atlantic Archipelagos /

This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland's economic, social and cultur...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris, Michael (Lecturer in English) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.
Colección:Routledge studies in cultural history ; 35.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Scotland and the Caribbean, c. 1740-1833
  • Theoretical orientations: transnationalism in the Atlantic world
  • Archipelagic poetics: pastoral, georgic, and the Scoto-British imperial vision, c.1740-1785
  • Robert Burns: slavery, freedom and abolition, 1786-1800
  • Not immediate but gradual: abolition to emancipation, 1800-1833
  • Recovering Scottish Creoles from the Caribbean
  • Joseph Knight: history, fiction, memory.