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

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

Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2012.

ix, 296 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

972.9 I23 2012

(OCoLC)756594339

Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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