Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery
Deirdre Coleman
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Hardback. Deirdre Coleman shows how the growing popularity of the anti-slavery movement gave a utopian cast to the debate about colonization. Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBG; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
The loss of Britain's North American colonies sparked an intense debate about the nature of colonization in the period 1770–1800. Drawing on archival research into colonies in Africa and Australia, including Sierra Leone and Botany Bay, Deirdre Coleman shows how the growing popularity of the anti-slavery movement gave a utopian cast to the debate about colonization. This utopianism can be seen most clearly in Romantic attempts to found an empire without slaves, a new world which would also encompass revolutionary sexual, racial and labour arrangements. From Henry Smeathman and John Clarkson in Sierra Leone to Arthur Phillip and William Dawes ... Read more
The loss of Britain's North American colonies sparked an intense debate about the nature of colonization in the period 1770–1800. Drawing on archival research into colonies in Africa and Australia, including Sierra Leone and Botany Bay, Deirdre Coleman shows how the growing popularity of the anti-slavery movement gave a utopian cast to the debate about colonization. This utopianism can be seen most clearly in Romantic attempts to found an empire without slaves, a new world which would also encompass revolutionary sexual, racial and labour arrangements. From Henry Smeathman and John Clarkson in Sierra Leone to Arthur Phillip and William Dawes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521632133
SKU
V9780521632133
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About Deirdre Coleman
Deirdre Coleman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney.
Reviews for Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery
"This important contribution to scholarship on late-18th-century imaginings of colonization is based on a close-reading of a wide variety of contemporary British writings about Botany Bay in New South Wales and Sierra Leone in Africa. Coleman combines British intellectual and political history with literary studies to make a connection between utopian visions of colonization and radical political causes, such ... Read more