African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century The Politics of Race and Reason

Name: African-British Writings in the Eighteenth Century The Politics of Race and Reason
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ISBN: 9780313306808

ISBN-10: 031330680X

ISBN-13: 9780313306808

Edition: 1998

Authors: Helena Woodard

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The eighteenth century was a time of great cultural change in Britain. It was a period marked by expeditions to the New World, Africa, and the Orient, and these voyages were reflected in the travel literature of the era. It was also a period in which seventeenth-century empiricism and the scientific method became dominant, and in which society became increasingly secular. Fundamental to the eighteenth-century worldview was the notion of the Great Chain of Being, in which all creatures and their Creator stood in a hierarchical relationship with one another. The years from 1660 to 1833 witnessed both Britain's participation in slavery and the appropriation of the Great Chain of Being by…

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List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 1/30/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction


Reading Pope/Reasoning Race: Enlightenment Humanism and the Chain's Discursive Legacy Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and Ottobah Cugoano


Perspectives on a Theological Chain Ignatius Sancho and Laurence Sterne


The Measure of Benevolence and the "Cult of Sensibility" Dampier's Hottentots, Swift's Yahoos, Equiano's Ibos


Imaging Blackness in a Colonialist Discourse Reading The History of Mary Prince


The Politics of Race and Gender


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index