Slavery, Colonialism and Connoisseurship

[Dave Monroe]

Bhattacharya, Nandini.  Slavery, Colonialism and
   Connoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century
   Literary Transnationalism.  Burlington, VT:
   Ashgate, 2006.

Colonization, slavery, traffic in women, and
connoisseurship seem to have particularly captured the
imaginations of circumatlantic writers of the later
eighteenth century.

In this book, Nandini Bhattacharya examines the works
of such writers as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, George
Colman Jr., James Cobb and Phillis Wheatley, who
redefined ideas about Value and Taste. Writers
re-presented the ethical debate on Value and trade
through aesthetic metaphors and discourse, thus
disguising the distasteful nature of the ownership and
exchange of human beings and mitigating the guilt
associated with that traffic. Bhattacharya explores
the circumatlantic redefinition of Taste and Value as
cultural and moral concepts in gender and racial
discourses in slave-owning, colonizing, and
connoisseurial Britain, and demonstrates how Value and
aesthetics were redefined in late eighteenth-century
circumatlantic discourses with particular focus on the
language of slavery, trade and connoisseurship. She
also delineates the workings of transnational
consciousness and experience of race, class, gender,
slavery, colonialism and connoisseurship in the late
eighteenth-century circumatlantic rim. Throughout the
study, Bhattacharya rereads late eighteenth-century
British literature as a stage for the articulation of
theories of difference and domination.

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