absent agronomist and the lord of poison: cultivating modernity in transatlantic literature, 1758-1854.

This dissertation contributes to the field of New Southern Studies by reading antebellum American literature in relation to the new forms of labor, knowledge, and racialization developed on the eighteenth-century French Caribbean plantation. Even though we think of modernity as having been produced...

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