Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777Thomas W. Krise University of Chicago Press, 2009 M02 15 - 358 páginas Although the colonies in the West Indies were as important to the expanding British empire as those in North America, writings from the British West Indies have been conspicuously absent from anthologies of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature. In this first literary anthology dedicated to the region, Thomas W. Krise gathers important but little-known descriptions, poems, narratives, satires, and essays written in and about this culturally rich and politically tempestuous region. Caribbeana offers invaluable period commentaries on slavery, colonialism, gender relations, African and European history, natural history, agriculture, and medicine. Highlights include several of the earliest protests against slavery; a superb ode by the Cambridge-educated Afro-Jamaican poet Francis Williams; James Grainger's extended georgic poem, The Sugar Cane; Frances Seymour's poignant tale of the Englishman Inkle who sells his Indian savior-lover Yarico into slavery; and several descriptions of the West Indies during the early years of settlement. |
Contenido
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1 From A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados 1657 | 16 |
2 From Jamaica Viewed I661 | 31 |
3 From Friendly Advice to the GentlemenPlanters of the East and West Indies 1684 | 51 |
4 A Trip to Jamaica 1698 | 77 |
5 A Speech Made by a Black of Guardaloupe 1709 | 93 |
6 The Speech of Moses Bon Sàam 1735 | 101 |
7 From The Speech of Mr John Talbot Campobell 1736 | 108 |
8 The Story of Inkle and Yarico and An Epistle from Yarico to Inkle After he bad left her in Slavery 1738 | 141 |
9 Poems from Caribbeana 1741 | 147 |
A Poem In Four Books 1764 | 166 |
11 From A General Description of the WestIndian Islands 1767 | 261 |
12 Carmen or an Ode in Edward Longs A History of Jamaica 1774 | 315 |
13 From Jamaica a Poem In Three Parts 1777 | 326 |
Notes | 341 |
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Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 Thomas W. Krise Vista previa limitada - 2009 |
Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 Thomas W. Krise Vista previa limitada - 1999 |
Caribbeana: An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777 Thomas W. Krise Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
Términos y frases comunes
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