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Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher – Natural History, Slavery, and Empire in the Late Eighteenth Century de Deirdre Coleman

Henry Smeathman, the Flycatcher – Natural History, Slavery, and Empire in the Late Eighteenth Century: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850

Autor Deirdre Coleman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 iun 2018
In 1771 Joseph Banks and other wealthy collectors sent a talented, self-taught naturalist to Sierra Leone to collect all things rare and curious, from moths to monkeys. Henry Smeathman's expedition to the West African coast, which coincided with a steep rise in British slave trading in this
area, lasted four years during which time he built a house on the Banana Islands, married into the coast's ruling dynasties, and managed to negotiate the tricky life of a 'stranger' bound to his landlord and local customs. In this book, which draws on a rich and little-known archive of journals and
letters, Coleman retraces Smeathman's life as he shuttled between his home on the Bananas and two key Liverpool trading forts - Bunce Island and the Isles de Los. In the logistical challenges of tropical collecting and the dispatch of specimens across the middle passage we see the close connection
between science and slavery. We also see the hardening of Smeathman's attitude towards the slaves, a change of sentiment which was later reversed by four years in the West Indies. The book concludes with the 'Flycatcher' back in London - a celebrated termite specialist, eager to return to West
Africa to establish a free, antislavery settlement.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781786940537
ISBN-10: 1786940531
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 162 x 240 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: Liverpool University Press
Seria Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850

Notă biografică


Deirdre Coleman is the Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of 'Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery' (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and has recently published essays in the 'Oxford History of the Novel' (2015), the 'Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century British Women Writers' (2015), and 'Archives of Natural History' (2017). Her research interests lie in literature, colonialism, slavery and natural history.

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This book enriches our understanding of Romanticism and colonialism by telling the story of Henry Smeathman (1742-86), natural historian and sentimental traveller whose extraordinary life in West Africa and the West Indies provides us with vivid, eye-witness accounts of Atlantic slavery, the Middle Passage, and the difficulties of collecting in the tropics.