Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later eighteenth century. In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who redefined ideas about Value and Taste.
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Slavery, Colonialism And Connoisseurship
Writers re-presented the ethical debate on Value and trade through aesthetic metaphors and discourse, thus disguising the distasteful nature of the ownership and exchange of human beings and mitigating the guilt associated with that traffic.
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| Dimensions | 24 × 16 × 1 cm |
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| Book Author | Nandini Bhattacharya |
| Edition | 1st |
| Format | Hardback |
| ISBN | 9780754603535 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 205 |
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