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Molineux, Catherine A. J.

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The peripheries within: Race, slavery, and empire in early modern England.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The peripheries within: Race, slavery, and empire in early modern England./
作者:	Molineux, Catherine A. J.
面頁冊數:	434 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4147.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
標題:	History, European. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3199326
ISBN:	9780542436352

The peripheries within: Race, slavery, and empire in early modern England.
Molineux, Catherine A. J.

The peripheries within: Race, slavery, and empire in early modern England. - 434 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4147.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2006.

"The Peripheries Within" explores visual and literary representations of black bodies in English popular culture, from 1688 to 1807. By turning to prints, journals, signboards, pornography, paintings, and other forms of media, this project recovers a century-long popular and often transatlantic debate over the virtues of colonization, the meanings of racial difference, and the morality of the slave trade. From Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688) to late eighteenth-century satires, Britons used representations of black bodies to explore their own fears of political and economic dependency, to articulate English mastery in relation to that of other European powers, and to negotiate their place within an Atlantic world whose human diversity threatened to destabilize their understandings of themselves as God's chosen people. During the Restoration and early Georgian era, Britons struggled to maintain idealistic notions of English imperialism as a benevolent, Christian mission in the face of slave rebellions abroad, the failure of planters to convert their slaves, their own inability to imagine black bodies within the Protestant community, and subversive strands of imperial thought that envisioned imperialism as mock-heroic conquest or fraternal trade with black heathens. By the mid-eighteenth century, Britons could no longer displace the problems of slavery onto planters abroad; narratives of English degeneration in the colonies gave way to satirical critiques of domestic slavery as a sign of metropolitan corruption. The American Revolution caused an ideological crisis expressed, in part, by conflating social unrest at home---symbolized by the rising numbers of blacks in London---with the loss of the mainland colonies. Grotesque racial imagery and the abolitionist movement reflect Britons' attempt to stabilize their identities in the face of imperial decline. This project argues that imagined encounters with the black body allowed Britons to, among other things, negotiate the meanings of empire, slavery, and racial difference, articulate evolving conceptions of themselves as a Protestant people in an expanding world, and confront the subversive potential of the peripheries within England. The late eighteenth-century Enlightenment and antislavery debates were the culmination of an ongoing discussion about the implications of England's colonizing role within the Atlantic world.

ISBN: 9780542436352Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018076
History, European.

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