African Impressions : How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment /

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"In African Impressions in British Literature, Rebecca Mitsein considers the ways that African self-representation continued to drive European impressions of the continent across the early Enlightenment, fueling desires to find the sources of West Africa's gold and the city states along th...

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Autor principal: Mitsein, Rebekah, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature.
Geography and literature.
English literature > Early modern.
English literature > African influences.
English literature.
Discoveries in geography.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Africa.
Africa > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "Wherein the Blacke-Prince Keepes His Residence, Attended by His Jetty Coloured Traine": Impressions of the Western Sudan, 1324-1620
  • "A Country of Blacks So Called": The Romance of African Impressions in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
  • "A Medium of an Endless Correspondence": Rivers for Want of Empires in the African Impressions of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton and Atlas Maritimus and Commercialis
  • "Where the Nile Riseth . . . Where the Queen of Saba Lived": Impressions of Abyssinia, 1327-1759
  • "Between the Inland Countries of Africk and the Ports of the Red Sea": African Impressions amid Fact and Fancy in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas "Descended from the Queen of Saba": African Women as Geographical Authorities in James Bruce's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
  • Coda.

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