African impressions : how African worldviews shaped the British geographical imagination across the early Enlightenment /
"In African Impressions in British Literature, Rebecca Mitsein considers the ways that African self-representation continued to drive European impressions of the continent across the early Enlightenment, fueling desires to find the sources of West Africa's gold and the city states along th...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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| Serier: | Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Introduction
- "Wherein the Blacke-Prince Keepes His Residence, Attended by His Jetty Coloured Traine": Impressions of the Western Sudan, 1324-1620
- "A Country of Blacks So Called": The Romance of African Impressions in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
- "A Medium of an Endless Correspondence": Rivers for Want of Empires in the African Impressions of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton and Atlas Maritimus and Commercialis
- "Where the Nile Riseth . . . Where the Queen of Saba Lived": Impressions of Abyssinia, 1327-1759
- "Between the Inland Countries of Africk and the Ports of the Red Sea": African Impressions amid Fact and Fancy in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas "Descended from the Queen of Saba": African Women as Geographical Authorities in James Bruce's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
- Coda.