{"product_id":"english-trader-indian-maid-representing-gender-race-and-slavery-in-the-new-world-9780801861062","title":"English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in the New World","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn March 13, 1711, an article appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violent death by Yarico, a beautiful Indian maiden. When he and Yarico become lovers, Inkle promises to clothe her in silks and transport her in carriages when he returns with her to England. Some months later, they are picked up after Yarico succeeds in signaling a passing English ship. But upon reaching Barbados, Inkle immediately sells Yarico into slavery--raising the price he demands when he learns that Yarico is pregnant with his child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a real life account in Richard Ligon's \u003ci\u003eHistory of Barbados\u003c\/i\u003e published half a century earlier, the \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e story caused a sensation as debate intensified over slavery in the British colonies--and it would be told and retold for decades as perhaps the most compelling folk epic of its age. In \u003ci\u003eEnglish Trader, Indian Maid\u003c\/i\u003e, Frank Felsenstein has assembled the main English versions of this once-famous story, including a newly rediscovered poetical epistle by Charles James Fox, one of the leading parliamentary promoters of the cause of abolition. As well as George Colman the Younger's still vibrant comic opera--considered by some the earliest English social problem play--the book contains tantalizing retellings from the Caribbean and from America, where the story has close affinities with the tale of Pocahontas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlso present are notable works by English women writers, such as Frances Seymour and Anna Maria Porter, and freshly attributed English renditions by Stephen Duck, the Wiltshire thresher poet, and by Peter Pindar (John Wolcot). Felsenstein also suggests an intriguing link with William Wordsworth, who may have had the story in mind while composing his \u003ci\u003eLyrical Ballads.\u003c\/i\u003e This edition restores the story of Inkle and Yarico to its rightful place as a focal narrative in cultural and historical debate of issues of gender, race, and colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Inkle and Yarico we have that rare entity, a perfect example of an intertextual discourse that reflects so much of the diversity and contradictions of the age that fostered it . . . Its diverse handling of issues of gender and race makes it a lively and highly topical discussion piece in the classroom. Equally, given the regrettable (and actually surprising) shortfall of prominent eighteenth-century literary texts that treat of the subject of slavery, Inkle and Yarico fills a highly significant gap.--from the Introduction [p.43]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frank Felsenstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.88h x 5.90w x 0.86d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801861062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Felsenstein\u003c\/b\u003e is the Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Ball State University in Indiana. He was previously Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds, and has also taught at the University of Geneva, Vanderbilt University, and Yeshiva College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40136292237427,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_7966baac-d747-43ce-b22f-3d6235cb985e.jpg?v=1654262788","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/english-trader-indian-maid-representing-gender-race-and-slavery-in-the-new-world-9780801861062","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}