Princes and Humble Friends: Representations of Africa and Africans in Eighteenth-century British LiteratureStanford University, 1991 - 236 pages |
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... idea ( prominent , for example , in Addison's " lucubrations " ) that contemplation of types was as valid a way of judging the social world as was consideration of actual behavior . Friday , the Black Prince , and Mouchat were credible ...
... idea ( prominent , for example , in Addison's " lucubrations " ) that contemplation of types was as valid a way of judging the social world as was consideration of actual behavior . Friday , the Black Prince , and Mouchat were credible ...
Page 116
... idea of slavery , the inescapable bottom of every white / black interaction in the century . Africans were raw sources of labor when Defoe and his followers imagined England's was to be a dominating world power . Blacks ( and other non ...
... idea of slavery , the inescapable bottom of every white / black interaction in the century . Africans were raw sources of labor when Defoe and his followers imagined England's was to be a dominating world power . Blacks ( and other non ...
Page 209
... idea that popular literature should preach virtue . He did not , however , believe the two kinds of texts should mix . In Rambler No. 4 , he wrote : In narratives , where historical veracity has no place , I cannot discover why there ...
... idea that popular literature should preach virtue . He did not , however , believe the two kinds of texts should mix . In Rambler No. 4 , he wrote : In narratives , where historical veracity has no place , I cannot discover why there ...
Contents
The Horridest Yell or Howling | 17 |
That Equal | 78 |
Firm Though Erring Zeal | 147 |
Copyright | |
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