Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 PDF
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00Front.qxd 10/5/2004 1:14 PM Page i Colonizing Nature This page intentionally left blank 00Front.qxd 10/5/2004 1:14 PM Page iii Colonizing Nature The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, – Beth Fowkes Tobin University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia 00Front.qxd 10/5/2004 1:14 PM Page iv Copyright © University ofPennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper Published by University ofPennsylvania Press Philadelphia,Pennsylvania - Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tobin,Beth Fowkes. Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters,–/ Beth Fowkes Tobin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN ---(cloth : alk.paper) .English literature—History and criticism..Tropics—In literature..Great Britain— Colonies—History—th century..Great Britain—Colonies—History—th century. .Gardening—History—th century..Gardening—History—th century..Gardening in literature..Colonies in literature..Nature in literature..Tropics—In art.I.Title. PR.TT .′—dc 00Front.qxd 10/5/2004 1:14 PM Page v For Joe This page intentionally left blank 00Front.qxd 10/5/2004 1:14 PM Page vii Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction:Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor 1 Tropical Bounty,Local Knowledge,and the Imperial Georgic 2 Provisional Economies:Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners 3 Land,Labor,and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India 4 Picturesque Ruins,Decaying Empires,and British Imperial Character in Hodges’s Travels in India 5 Seeing,Writing,and Revision:Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook’s A Voyage towards the South Pole,and Round the World 6 Domesticating the Tropics:Tropical Flowers,Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting Epilogue:Decolonizing Garden History Notes Select Bibliography Index Acknowledgments This page intentionally left blank 00Front.qxd 10/5/2004 1:14 PM Page ix Illustrations . Agostino Brunias,Linen Market,Dominica . Agostino Brunias,A West Indian Flower Girl and Two other Free Women ofColor . Johann Zoffany,Mr and Mrs Warren Hastings . Arthur Devis,Sir John Shaw and His Family in the Park at Eltham Lodge,Kent . Arthur Devis,Thomas Lister and His Family . Arthur Devis,Robert and Elizabeth Gwillym and their Family,of Atherton Hall,Herefordshire . Paul Sandby,Hackwood Park,Hampshire .Bifrons Park,Kent . Arthur Devis,Leak Okeover,Rev.John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall,Staffordshire . Johann Zoffany,The Drummond Family . Johann Zoffany,The Impey Family Listening to Strolling Musicians, Calcutta . Arthur William Devis,The Hon.William Monson and his Wife, Ann Debonnaire . Arthur William Devis,William Dent with his Brother,John,and an Indian Landlord,Anand Narain . Arthur William Devis,Louisa Dent and her Children .William Gilpin,View into a Winding Valley . B.T.Pouncy,after William Hodges,A View ofBidjegur .Gaspard Poussin Dughet,View ofTivoli with Rome in the Distance . W.Angus,after William Hodges,The Pass ofSicri Gully . J.Fittler,after William Hodges,A View ofthe Palace ofthe Nabob Asoph ul Dowlah at Lucknow .J.Walker,after William Hodges,A View ofAgra . W.Byrne,after William Hodges,A View ofthe Fort ofGwalior . J.K.Sherwin,after William Hodges,The Landing at Erramanga, one ofthe New Hebrides
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