Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780 1870

by Tim Watson

Book Overview

Tim Watson challenges the idea that Caribbean colonies in the nineteenth century were outposts of empire easily relegated to the realm of tropical romance while the real story took place in Britain. Analyzing pamphlets, newspapers, estate papers, trial transcripts, and missionary correspondence, this book recovers stories of ordinary West Indians, enslaved and free, as they made places for themselves in the empire and the Atlantic world, from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521188717
• ISBN13: 9780521188715
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"