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Author:   Seohyon Jung (Tufts University, USA) ,  Leah M. Thomas (Virginia State University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780367407254

ISBN 10:   0367407256
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   04 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction: Promises and Predicaments of the Long Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic World 1 SEOHYON JUNG 2 Pirates, Slaves, and Profligate Rogues: Sailors of Color in the Eighteenth-Century Maritime World 18 VICTORIA BARNETT-WOODS 3 “Commencing Merchant”: Forms of Feeling and Logics of Capital in Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789) 46 EMILEE DURAND 4 “Peruvia’s Bleeding Land”: Bodyscape Commerce in Helen Maria Williams’s Peru 74 LEAH M. THOMAS 5 Religion, Sexuality, and Antislavery Resistance: The Hart Sisters and Mary Prince in the Atlantic World 104 JAMIE ROSENTHAL 6 “A Cure, Both for Soul and Body”: Transculturation in Robinson Crusoe’s Tobacco “Application” 128 COREY GOERGEN 7 “One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure”: Counterfeit Coins and Imperial Commerce in 1770s Jamaica 148 DAVID MAZELLA 8 Currency, Credit, and Trust: Naval Victualing at the Cape Colony, 1795–1815 167 ELIZABETH C. LIBERO 9 Epilogue: Reimagining the Edge of Transatlantic Commerce as Center 188 LEAH M. THOMAS AND SEOHYON JUNG

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Seohyon Jung received her Ph.D. in English from Tufts University in 2020. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, with a particular interest in the ideas of motherhood, women's labor, and theories of colonial modernity. She currently teaches at Seoul National University. Leah M. Thomas is Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Languages and Literature at Virginia State University.

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