Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature / Christopher P. Iannini.

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Iannini, Christopher P [author.]

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Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781469601922
1469601923

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fatal revolutions.DDC classification:

972.9 23

LOC classification:

F1609.5 .I26 2012eb

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Contents:

Strange things, occult relations : emblem and narrative in Hans Sloane's Voyage to- Jamaica -- Fatal latitudes : the poetics of West Indian "improvement" in Mark Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands -- "The itinerant man" : Crèvecoeur's Caribbean, Raynal's revolution, and the fate of Atlantic cosmopolitanism -- "All the West-Indian weeds" : William Bartram's Travels and the natural history of the Floridas -- Notes on the state of Virginia, the Haitian Revolution, and the return of epistolarity -- The birds of America and the specter of Caribbean accumulation -- Humboldt's Havana.

Summary: Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, this book connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world - the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. It argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, this book connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world - the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. It argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas.

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