did-you-know? rent-now

Rent More, Save More! Use code: ECRENTAL

did-you-know? rent-now

Rent More, Save More! Use code: ECRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

9780415312868

Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope and Gay

by ;
  • ISBN13:

    9780415312868

  • ISBN10:

    0415312868

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-12-09
  • Publisher: Routledge

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Purchase Benefits

  • Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
    Your order must be $35 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
  • eCampus.com Logo Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
List Price: $190.00 Save up to $148.54
  • Rent Book $128.25
    Add to Cart Free Shipping Icon Free Shipping

    TERM
    PRICE
    DUE
    USUALLY SHIPS IN 3-5 BUSINESS DAYS
    *This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

How To: Textbook Rental

Looking to rent a book? Rent Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope and Gay [ISBN: 9780415312868] for the semester, quarter, and short term or search our site for other textbooks by Richardson; J. Renting a textbook can save you up to 90% from the cost of buying.

Summary

Slavery and Augustan Literatureinvestigates 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 the attitudes towards slavery in Pope's Horatian poems,An Essay on Man,Polly,A Modest ProposalandGulliver's Travels. John Richardson shows how, despite differences, Swift, Pope and Gay adopt a mixed position of admiration for freedom alongside implicit support for slavery.

Author Biography

John Richardson teaches literature at the National University of Singapore.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
References and short titles xi
Introduction
1(12)
The English and slavery
13(26)
How much people knew
13(9)
What scope there was to condemn
22(7)
Attitudes
29(10)
The Scriblerus Club
39(24)
Peace preliminaries and Swift (1710--11)
39(8)
The Treaty of Utrecht and Pope (January 1712--Spring 1713)
47(10)
Peace and Scriblerus (Summer 1713--14)
57(6)
Writing the peace
63(26)
The geography of the peace
63(6)
Swift's Tory pamphleteering
69(7)
Poetry of war and peace
76(7)
Windsor-Forest
83(6)
Pope
89(20)
Pope and Cato
89(10)
Pope and slavery
99(10)
Gay
109(12)
Gay, opposition, slavery
109(4)
The Captives and Polly
113(8)
Swift
121(26)
Irish pamphlets
121(8)
A Modest Proposal
129(7)
Gulliver's Travels
136(11)
Conclusion
147(6)
Notes 153(20)
Bibliography 173(10)
Index 183

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program