Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century...
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Author: Christopher P. Iannini
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Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature by Iannini, Christopher P.

Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature

$113.81

Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature

$113.81
Author: Christopher P. Iannini
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini 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. Iannini 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. In fact, eighteenth-century natural history as a literary genre largely took its shape from its practice in the Caribbean, an oft-studied region that was a prime source of wealth for all of Europe and the Americas.
The formal evolution of colonial prose narrative, Ianinni argues, was contingent upon the emergence of natural history writing, which itself emerged necessarily from within the context of Atlantic slavery and the production of tropical commodities. As he reestablishes the history of cultural exchange between the Caribbean and North America, Ianinni recovers the importance of the West Indies in the formation of American literary and intellectual culture as well as its place in assessing the moral implications of colonial slavery.

Author: Christopher P. Iannini
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781469669427

About the Author
Iannini, Christopher P.: - Christopher P. Iannini is associate professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick.

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