Crossing the Line: Early Creole Novels and Anglophone Caribbean Culture in the Age of Emancipation

by Candace Ward

Book Overview

Crossing the Line examines a group of early nineteenth-century novels by white creoles, writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Colonial subjects residing in the West Indian colonies "beyond the line," these writers were perceived by their metropolitan contemporaries as far removed--geographically and morally--from Britain and "true" Britons. Routinely portrayed as single-minded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081394001X
• ISBN13: 9780813940014
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.8"