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

Title:
Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature /
Author:
Iannini, Christopher P.
Published:
Chapel Hill : c2012.
Format:
Book
Institution:
Emmanuel College
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.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
Emmanuel Main Stacks
F1609.5 .I26 2012 – Available