Slavery and the Culture of Taste

Name: Slavery and the Culture of Taste
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ISBN: 9780691160979

ISBN-10: 069116097X

ISBN-13: 9780691160979

Edition: 2011

Authors: Simon Gikandi

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It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/2/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Simon Gikandi is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. His many books include "Writing in Limbo" and "Maps of Englishness."