Slavery, Colonialism And Connoisseurship: Gender And Eighteenth-century Literary Transnationalism

Product DescriptionColonization, 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. 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.About the AuthorNandini Bhattacharya teaches in and chairs the department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Toledo, USA.