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Author Iannini, Christopher P., author.
Title Fatal revolutions : natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature / Christopher P. Iannini.
Publication Info Chapel Hill : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2012.
Copyright date ©2012


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Descript 296 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.
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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.
ISBN 0807835560 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807835562 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Standard no. 40020637399
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Author Iannini, Christopher P., author.
Subject Plantation life in literature.
Slavery in literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Natural history -- West Indies.
Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Caribbean Area -- In literature.
West Indies -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Alt author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Descript 296 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.
Content text txt
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Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
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.
ISBN 0807835560 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807835562 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Standard no. 40020637399
Author Iannini, Christopher P., author.
Subject Plantation life in literature.
Slavery in literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Natural history -- West Indies.
Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Caribbean Area -- In literature.
West Indies -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Alt author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 Wilberforce Institute  F 1609.5 I1  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Subject Plantation life in literature.
Slavery in literature.
American literature -- History and criticism.
Natural history -- West Indies.
Slavery -- West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Caribbean Area -- In literature.
West Indies -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
West Indies -- History -- 18th century.
Descript 296 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.
Content text txt
still image sti
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
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.
Alt author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
ISBN 0807835560 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780807835562 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Standard no. 40020637399
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