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British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce

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  • © 2002

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  1. Anna Neill
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Commerce, Society and the Sea Voyage

    • Anna Neill
    Pages 1-30

  3. Buccaneer Ethnography: Nature, Culture and State in the Journals of William Dampier

    • Anna Neill
    Pages 31-51

  4. International Trade and Individual Enterprise: Defoe’s Maritime Adventurers

    • Anna Neill
    Pages 52-82

  5. Swift and the Geographers: Race, Space and Merchant Capital in Gulliver’s Travels

    • Anna Neill
    Pages 83-119

  6. Roderick Random, Rasselas and the Currents of Fancy

    • Anna Neill
    Pages 120-148

  7. South Seas Trade and the Character of Captains

    • Anna Neill
    Pages 149-179

  8. Conclusion: Global Commerce and Homelessness

    • Anna Neill
    Pages 180-184

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 185-229
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British Discovery Literature and the Rise of Global Commerce examines how, between 1680 and 1800, British maritime travellers became both friends and foes of the commercial state. These nomadic characters report on remote parts of the globe in the twin contexts of an increasingly powerful imperial state and an emerging world economy. Examining voyage narratives by William Dampler, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, James Cook, and William Bligh, Neill demonstrates how the transformation of travellers from nomadic outlaws into civil subjects , and vice versa, takes place against the political-economic backdrop of commercial expansion.

About the author

ANNA NEILL is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is author of articles on travel literature in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Women's Writing and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation. She has also published articles on film and on cultural studies and pedagogy.

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