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5. Torrid Zones and Detoxified Landscapes: Picturing Jamaica, 1825–1840
Kay Dian Kriz
Description: Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies,...
Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700–1840
This sharp piece of billingsgate, written by the Grub Street wit Edward Ward in 1698, jumbles images of the body and the landscape in order to imagine Jamaica...
Author
Kay Dian Kriz
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2008 by Kay Dian Kriz
Related print edition pages: pp.157-193
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00314.6
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22587
Chapter subject tags:Slavery--West IndiesKidd, Joseph BartholomewColonialism--Caribbean Area--HistorySlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryArt, JamaicanSugarcane industry--Caribbean Area--HistoryPrints, British--19th centuryPlantations in art--19th centuryKingston (Jamaica)Hakewill, James, 1778-1843Natural history--Caribbean Area--19th century

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5. Torrid Zones and Detoxified Landscapes: Picturing Jamaica, 1825–1840