Sean D. Moore (University of New Ha Associate Professor of English

Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries

British Literature, Political Thought, and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1731-1814

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores how profits from slavery underpinned the dissemination of British literature in America during the eighteenth century and how the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780198836377
• ISBN-10: 0198836376
• Artikelnr.: 54850208

Autorenporträt

Sean Moore is the Editor of the international journal Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is the author of Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010), which won the Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). He has published in PMLA, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, Atlantic Studies, the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, and other journals and essay collections. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Ireland as a graduate student, and has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Library Company of Philadelphia, Folger Library, John Carter Brown Library, Newport Mansions, and other institutions.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Introduction
* 1: Buying Oroonoko in Salem: Sentimentality, Spectacle, and the Salem
Social Library
* 2: 'Whatever is, is Right': The Redwood Library and the Reception of
Pope's Poetry in Colonial Rhode Island
* 3: They Were Prodigals and Enslavers: Patriarchy and the Reading of
Robinson Crusoe at the New York Society Library
* 4: Slaves as Securitized Assets: Chrsyal, or, The Adventures of a
Guinea, Paper Money, and the Charleston Library Society
* 5: 'See Benezet's Account of Africa Throughout': The Genres of
Equiano's Interesting Narrative and the Library Company of
Philadelphia
* Conclusion
* Bibliography