Tim Watson

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the interrelationship between Caribbean narratives and British fiction in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780521876261
• ISBN-10: 0521876265
• Artikelnr.: 23484761

Autorenporträt

Tim Watson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Miami.

Inhaltsangabe

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'.