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Insect Poetics: James Grainger, Personification, and Enlightenments Not Taken

Insect Poetics: James Grainger, Personification, and Enlightenments Not Taken monique allewaert University of Wisconsin−Madison Insect Poetics James Grainger, Personification, and Enlightenments Not Taken Since the recuperation to the canon of Scot btoisrh- n poet and physician James Grainger’s work, scholars have concentrated on book 4 of his West Indian neogeorgeTh ic S ugar-C ane (1764) as the portion of his oeuvre with the most contemporary relevance. Here Grainger finally turns from discussions of what seem entirely prosaic topics like the care of West Indian soil (book 1), threats to the cane crop (book 2), and the co - nver sion of raw material to commodities (book 3) to take up a problem that if it strikes readers as equally unpoetic is at least of interest tfir o tw st- enty- century audiences. Here in book 4 the poem focuses on the Afric b a on- rn slave population that cultivated the sugar crop, a topic relevant to scholars working to track the lives of those subjected within an emerging mo - der nity. While twenty- fir st- century readers have turned critical attention to the poem’s fourth book, Grainger and a number of his eightecen ent th- ury readers took more interest in its second. Writing from St. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Insect Poetics: James Grainger, Personification, and Enlightenments Not Taken

Allewaert, Monique.
Early American Literature , Volume 52 (2) – Jun 16, 2017
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monique allewaert University of Wisconsin−Madison Insect Poetics James Grainger, Personification, and Enlightenments Not Taken Since the recuperation to the canon of Scot btoisrh- n poet and physician James Grainger’s work, scholars have concentrated on book 4 of his West Indian neogeorgeTh ic S ugar-C ane (1764) as the portion of his oeuvre with the most contemporary relevance. Here Grainger finally turns from discussions of what seem entirely prosaic topics like the care of West Indian soil (book 1), threats to the cane crop (book 2), and the co - nver sion of raw material to commodities (book 3) to take up a problem that if it strikes readers as equally unpoetic is at least of interest tfir o tw st- enty- century audiences. Here in book 4 the poem focuses on the Afric b a on- rn slave population that cultivated the sugar crop, a topic relevant to scholars working to track the lives of those subjected within an emerging mo - der nity. While twenty- fir st- century readers have turned critical attention to the poem’s fourth book, Grainger and a number of his eightecen ent th- ury readers took more interest in its second. Writing from St.

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Published: Jun 16, 2017

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