TY  - BOOK
AU  - Iannini,Christopher P.
AU  - Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
TI  - Fatal revolutions: natural history, West Indian slavery, and the routes of American literature 
SN  - 9781469601922
AV  - F1609 .F383 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Natural history
KW  - West Indies
KW  - Slavery
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Plantation life in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Strange things, occult relations : emblem and narrative in Hans Sloane's Voyage to- Jamaica --; Fatal latitudes : the poetics of West Indian "improvement" in Mark Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands --; "The itinerant man" : Crèvecoeur's Caribbean, Raynal's revolution, and the fate of Atlantic cosmopolitanism --; "All the West-Indian weeds" : William Bartram's Travels and the natural history of the Floridas --; Notes on the state of Virginia, the Haitian Revolution, and the return of epistolarity --; The birds of America and the specter of Caribbean accumulation --; Humboldt's Havana; 2; b
N2  - Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, this book connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world - the emergence and growth of the Caribbean plantation system and the rise of natural science. It argues that these transformations were not only deeply interconnected, but that together they established conditions fundamental to the development of a distinctive literary culture in the early Americas
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