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    "Perfectly whole": skin and text in John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam"

    Senior, Emily (2010) "Perfectly whole": skin and text in John Gabriel Stedman's "Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam". Eighteenth-Century Studies 44 (1), pp. 39-56. ISSN 0013-2586.

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    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.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Research Centres and Institutes: Nineteenth-Century Studies, Centre for
    Depositing User: Emily Senior
    Date Deposited: 04 Jul 2012 14:46
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:31
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4871

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