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Category : Autobiographies
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
University Library of Autobiography: Autobiography in the early eighteenth century (1690-1750)
Author: University Library of Autobiography, Including All the Great Autobiograpbhies and the Autobiographical Data Left by the World's Famous Men and Women: Autobiography in the early eighteenth century
Author: University Library of Autobiography
Author: Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1370
Book Description
Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries
Author: Sean D. MoorePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192573403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The History of British Women's Writing, 1690 - 1750
Author: R. BallasterPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230298354
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture of letters rather than simply reflect or respond to the work of their male contemporaries.