Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 : Atlantic Archipelagos /

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Author / Creator:Morris, Michael (Lecturer in English), author.
Imprint:New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 256 pages)
Language:English
Series:Routledge studies in cultural history ; 35
Routledge studies in cultural history ; 35.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13912706
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ISBN:9781317675860
131767586X
9781315771595
1315771594
9781317675846
1317675843
9781317675853
1317675851
1138778982
9781138778986
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:This book participates in the modern recovery of the memory of the long-forgotten relationship between Scotland and the Caribbean. Drawing on theoretical paradigms of world literature and transnationalism, it argues that Caribbean slavery profoundly shaped Scotland's economic, social and cultural development, and draws out the implications for current debates on Scotland's national narratives of identity. Eighteenth- to nineteenth-century Scottish writers are re-examined in this new light. Morris explores the ways that discourses of ""improvement"" in both Scotland and the Caribbean are mediat
Other form:Print version: Morris, Michael. Scotland and the Caribbean, c.1740-1833 : Atlantic Archipelagos. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2015 9781138778986
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