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Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / Beth Fowkes Tobin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tobin, Beth Fowkes.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Gardening--History--18th century.
- Gardening.
- Gardening--History--19th century.
- Gardening in literature.
- Colonies in literature.
- Nature in literature.
- History.
- Tropics--In literature.
- Tropics.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.
- Tropics--In art.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- How the art and literature of the British Empire reflected its dominion over the resources of tropical colonies.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Troping the tropics and aestheticizing labor
- Tropical bounty, local knowledge, and the imperial georgic
- Provisional economies : slave gardens in the writings of British sojourners
- Land, labor, and the English garden conversation piece in India
- Picturesque ruins, decaying empires, and British imperial character in Hodges's Travels in India
- Seeing, writing, and revision : natural history discourse and Captain Cook's A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world
- Domesticating the tropics : tropical flowerrs, botanical books, and the culture of collecting
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-249) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812238354
- OCLC:
- 55633674
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