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Hardcover Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope and Gay Book

ISBN: 0415312868

ISBN13: 9780415312868

Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope and Gay

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Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory ministry, which attempted to increase substantially the English share of the international slave trade. They all wrote in support of the treaty that was meant to effect that increase. The book begins with contemporary ideas about slavery, with the Tory ministry years and with texts written...

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