03108oam 2200733I 450 991045137840332120200520144314.00-415-75856-41-134-38140-91-280-07429-90-203-49574-810.4324/9780203495742 (CKB)1000000000253741(EBL)182579(OCoLC)475896543(SSID)ssj0000309612(PQKBManifestationID)11229814(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309612(PQKBWorkID)10283487(PQKB)10509225(MiAaPQ)EBC182579(Au-PeEL)EBL182579(CaPaEBR)ebr10099889(CaONFJC)MIL7429(OCoLC)252926412(EXLCZ)99100000000025374120180331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSlavery and Augustan literature Swift, Pope, Gay /John RichardsonNew York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (200 p.)Routledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-203-34729-3 0-415-31286-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-181) and index.Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; References and short titles; Introduction; The English and slavery; The Scriblerus Club; Writing the peace; Pope; Gay; Swift; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexSlavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase substantially the English share of the international slave trade. They all wrote in support of the treaty that was meant to effect that increase. The book begins with contemporary ideas about slavery, with the Tory ministry years and with texts written during those years. These texts tend to obscure the importance of the slave trade to Tory planning. In its second half, the book analyses thRoutledge studies in eighteenth-century literature ;2.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismSlavery in literatureSlave tradeGreat BritainHistory18th centurySlaveryGreat BritainHistory18th centurySlave trade in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Slavery in literature.Slave tradeHistorySlaveryHistorySlave trade in literature.820.9/355820.9355Richardson J. A(John A.),1956,904872MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451378403321Slavery and Augustan literature2023564UNINA