Felicity Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representations of human difference in England and its empire during the long eighteenth century. With a special focus on women s …
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of 'the Other'through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this …
A study of British imperialism's imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policyIn this lively book, Ashley Cohen weaves a …
D Van Kooy, JN Cox - Modern Drama, 2012 - utpjournals.press
The article focuses on the concomitant rise of melodrama and the abolitionist movement in the late eighteenth century and how these cultural discourses evolved in conjunction with …
AL Cohen - Comparative Literature, 2017 - read.dukeupress.edu
This essay begins by observing that the Indian and Atlantic Ocean worlds were deeply linked in eighteenth-century British literature and colonial discourse—so deeply, in fact, that …
Dana Van Kooy draws critical attention to Percy Bysshe Shelley as a dramatist and argues that his dramas represent a critical paradigm of romanticism in which history is' staged' …
M Lawson - journal of the civil war era, 2011 - JSTOR
In October 1855, the first installment of a remarkable story about slavery appeared in Putnam's Monthly magazine. Herman Melville's Benito Cereno told the tale of an American …
John Fawcett's Obi; or, Three Finger'd Jack, a pantomime based on a Jamaican slave revolt of 1780 to 1781, took to the Atlantic stages just as the Saint Domingue insurrection …
'Improvisations of Empire'offers the first extended critical, biographical and historiographical account of the work of Thomas Pringle, a poet and writer who occupies a central place in the …