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Colonizing nature :the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Colonizing nature :Beth Fowkes Tobin.
Reminder of title:	the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /
Author:	Tobin, Beth Fowkes.
Published:	Philadelphia :PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,©2005.
Description:	xvi, 255 pages :illustrations ;24 cm
Subject:	1700-1899
Subject:	English literatureHistory and criticism.
Subject:	TropicsClimate.
ISBN:	0812238354

Colonizing nature :the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /
Tobin, Beth Fowkes.

Colonizing nature :the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /Beth Fowkes Tobin. - Philadelphia :PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press,©2005. - xvi, 255 pages :illustrations ;24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.

Introduction : Troping the tropics and aestheticizing labor -- Tropical bounty, local knowledge, and the imperial georgic -- Provisional economies : slave gardens in the writings of British sojourners -- Land, labor, and the English garden conversation piece in India -- Picturesque ruins, decaying empires, and British imperial character in Hodges's Travels in India -- Seeing, writing, and revision : natural history discourse and Captain Cook's A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world -- Domesticating the tropics : tropical flowerrs, botanical books, and the culture of collecting.

"With its control of sugar plantations in the Caribbean and tea, cotton, and indigo production in India, Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries dominated the global economy of tropical agriculture. In Colonizing Nature, Beth Fowkes Tobin shows how dominion over "the tropics" as both a region and an idea became central to the way in which Britons-imagined their role in the world." "Just as mastery of tropical nature, and especially its potential for agricultural productivity, became key concepts in the formation of British imperial identity, Colonizing Nature suggests that intellectual and visual mastery of the tropics - through the creation of art and literature - accompanied material appropriations of land, labor, and natural resources. Tobin convincingly argues that the depictions of tropical plants, gardens, and landscapes that circulated in the British imagination provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped the British Empire."--Jacket.

ISBN: 0812238354

Standard No.: 9780812238358

LCCN: 2004052630

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA472204bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013007554UkSubjects--Chronological Terms:

1700-1899
Subjects--Topical Terms:

178874
English literature
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

443165
Tropics
--Climate.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

685464
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PR129.T76 / T63 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9/3213

Colonizing nature :the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 /
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