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"Perfectly whole": skin and teeth in John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam"
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Senior, Emily (2010) "Perfectly whole": skin and teeth in John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam". Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.44 (No.1). 39-+. doi:10.1353/ecs.2010.0017
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2010.0017
Abstract
Most commonly associated with the striking engravings by William Blake which embellished its 1796 publication, John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative has much to offer scholars of colonial history and literature beyond this connection. This paper reads Stedman's account of military life in the troubled Dutch colony of Suriname in terms of his fascination with the effects of the turbulent colonial environment on skin. As the point of convergence for social narratives of the body in terms of beauty, feeling, health, and race, skin becomes the motif through which Stedman makes sense of the disease and death which surround him.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities | ||||
| Divisions: | Other > Institute of Advanced Study Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Eighteenth-Century Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | The Johns Hopkins University Press | ||||
| ISSN: | 0013-2586 | ||||
| Official Date: | 2010 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.44 | ||||
| Number: | No.1 | ||||
| Number of Pages: | 19 | ||||
| Page Range: | 39-+ | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1353/ecs.2010.0017 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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