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Slavery and Augustan Literature - Swift, Pope and Gay (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,670
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Slavery and Augustan Literature - Swift, Pope and Gay (Paperback): J. Richardson

Slavery and Augustan Literature - Swift, Pope and Gay (Paperback)

J. Richardson

Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

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Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase substantially the English share of the international slave trade. They all wrote in support of the treaty that was meant to effect that increase. The book begins with contemporary ideas about slavery, with the Tory ministry years and with texts written during those years. These texts tend to obscure the importance of the slave trade to Tory planning. In its second half, the book analyses the attitudes towards slavery in Pope's Horatian poems, An Essay on Man, Polly, A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels. John Richardson shows how, despite differences, Swift, Pope and Gay adopt a mixed position of admiration for freedom alongside implicit support for slavery.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Release date: April 2014
First published: 2004
Authors: J. Richardson
Dimensions: 234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-75856-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation
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LSN: 0-415-75856-4
Barcode: 9780415758567

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