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Erotic islands: The Caribbean of early eighteenth-century British literature (Daniel Defoe, John Gay, William Pittis).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Erotic islands: The Caribbean of early eighteenth-century British literature (Daniel Defoe, John Gay, William Pittis)./
Author:	Downes, Melissa Kimball.
Description:	260 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: A, page: 4176.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-12A.
Subject:	Literature, Caribbean. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3034090
ISBN:	0493470379

Erotic islands: The Caribbean of early eighteenth-century British literature (Daniel Defoe, John Gay, William Pittis).
Downes, Melissa Kimball.

Erotic islands: The Caribbean of early eighteenth-century British literature (Daniel Defoe, John Gay, William Pittis). - 260 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-12, Section: A, page: 4176.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 2001.

This dissertation investigates the eroticization of the Caribbean in early eighteenth-century English literature. The approach is historical, rather than psychoanalytic, and relies on a variety of theorists working in cultural, feminist, queer, and post-colonial studies. The Caribbean was of central economic importance to England in the eighteenth century, particularly in its reliance on slaves and its production of sugar; it was a primary focus of critical and justificatory arguments about colonization, slavery, and imperialism. This dissertation is driven by two larger questions: Why and how does the Caribbean function as a sexualized space for authors and theorists? Why and how does the Caribbean, so central to the economic growth of eighteenth-century England, function as a contradictorily Edenic (sexualized) space and a degenerate (Sodom-like) space, sometimes at the heart and sometimes at the edges of early eighteenth-century literature?

ISBN: 0493470379Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019116
Literature, Caribbean.

Erotic islands: The Caribbean of early eighteenth-century British literature (Daniel Defoe, John Gay, William Pittis).
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520 $a This dissertation investigates the eroticization of the Caribbean in early eighteenth-century English literature. The approach is historical, rather than psychoanalytic, and relies on a variety of theorists working in cultural, feminist, queer, and post-colonial studies. The Caribbean was of central economic importance to England in the eighteenth century, particularly in its reliance on slaves and its production of sugar; it was a primary focus of critical and justificatory arguments about colonization, slavery, and imperialism. This dissertation is driven by two larger questions: Why and how does the Caribbean function as a sexualized space for authors and theorists? Why and how does the Caribbean, so central to the economic growth of eighteenth-century England, function as a contradictorily Edenic (sexualized) space and a degenerate (Sodom-like) space, sometimes at the heart and sometimes at the edges of early eighteenth-century literature?
520 $a The first chapter focuses on the uses of women in the literature surrounding the South Sea Bubble (partially a Caribbean venture) in comparison to the issues of commerce, disorderly sexuality, and empire brought out in the little-known <italic> The Jamaica Lady</italic>. The chapter suggests some of the historical and literary links between the Bubble, the Caribbean, slavery, and misogynist representations of women. In <italic>The Jamaica Lady</italic> we can see the Caribbean used as a transgressive outpost, where women become the eighteenth-century misogynistic nightmare. Chapters 2 and 3 take up <italic> Robinson Crusoe</italic>. The first focuses on Crusoe's relationship with Friday, dwelling particularly on Defoe's own definition in some of his other works of the ideal romantic domestic relationship, and on the employment and erotics of the list in <italic>Robinson Crusoe</italic>. The second of the chapters looks at Crusoe's response to possessions, self, Caribbean space, and cannibals. Both chapters investigate Crusoe's desire to possess and control. In <italic>Robinson Crusoe</italic> the Caribbean functions again as feminine space, containing both fertile abundance and dangerous teeth, where Crusoe practices sexualized strategies of containment and discipline. The final chapter looks at John Gay's lesser-known <italic>Polly</italic>. It is my argument that Gay specifically satirizes many of the representations of sexuality and the Caribbean that I analyze in preceding chapters.
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