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"Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant attention to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' Rather than dealing exclusively with a particular industry or type of industry, the contributors take up the issue of how various economies have been represented in Aboriginal art; in literature by North American, Caribbean, Portuguese, South African, First nation's, Australian, British, and Aboriginal authors; and in a diverse range of writings that includes travel diaries, missionary texts, the findings of the Leprosy Investigation Commission, early medical accounts and media representations of HIV/AIDS. Examining trade in commodities as various as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern Aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the essays reflect the widespread origins of the contributors themselves, who are based throughout the English-speaking world. Taken as a whole, this book contests the commonplace view promoted by some modern economists-that trade in and of itself has a leveling effect, equalising cultures, places, and peoples-demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences in power."--Provided by publisher.

English literature --- Colonies in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Capitalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Colonies --- Commerce --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization

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By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the hard-to-distinguish privateer), The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international relations, and contemporary politics. The first book-length treatment of the cultural impact of Renaissance piracy, this study underlines how despite its transgressive nature, piracy can be seen as a key mechanism which served to connect peoples and regions.

Thematology --- English literature --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Crime in literature. --- Pirates in literature. --- Politics and literature --- Privateering --- Commerce in literature. --- Corsairs --- Naval art and science --- Naval history --- Piracy --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political aspects

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"In Common Things explores the implacable agency of five common substances--stone, wood, oil, salt, and moss--in the life and literature of the Romantic period. It argues that these substances and their histories have shaped cultural consciousness, and that Romantic era texts formally encode this shaping. Substance is both the natural object of Romantic literature and the commodity that has driven global climate change, and represents the paradox of the modern relation to materiality. In Common Things excavates the cultural, ecological and commodity histories of these substances, demonstrating qualities they share "in common" with literary form. What this book hopes to prompt in its readers is a reevaluation of the simple, the everyday, and the common in light of its contribution to our contemporary sense of ourselves and our societies."--

Commerce in literature. --- Culture in literature. --- Ecology in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Felicia Hemans. --- John Clare. --- Mary Prince. --- Mary Wollstonecraft. --- Romantic literature. --- William Wordsworth. --- commodity history. --- cultural history. --- eco-criticism. --- environmental history. --- gothic. --- moss. --- oil. --- salt. --- stone. --- wood.

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"The British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, such as William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, including Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, 'Reinventing Liberty' reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and positions Scott in relation to this tradition."--

Historical fiction, English --- English literature --- Liberty in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Freedom in literature --- Liberty as a theme in literature --- History and criticism. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Liberty in literature --- Commerce in literature --- History and criticism --- E-books --- Historical fiction, English. --- English literature. --- 1700-1899 --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- English historical fiction --- English fiction

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Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these pressures. From dream reveries which mocked their own entrepreneurial commitments, such as Oliver Goldsmith's account of selling his work at a 'Fashion Fair' on the frozen Thames, to the Microcosm's mock plan to establish 'a licensed warehouse for wit', writers insistently tied their literary achievements to a sophisticated understanding of the uncertain complexities of a modern transactional society. This book combines a new understanding of late eighteenth-century literature with the materialist and sociological imperatives of book history and theoretically inflected approaches to cultural history.

Commerce in literature --- English literature --- Literature and society --- Materialism in literature --- Modernism (Literature) --- National characteristics, British, in literature --- 82 "17" --- 82:30 --- 930.85 --- 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis --- 82 "17" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- History and criticism --- History --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Commerce in literature. --- Materialism in literature. --- National characteristics, British, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature