Trading places : colonization and slavery in eighteenth-century F rench culture / Madeleine Dobie.
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TextPublication details: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.Description: xv, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780801449024 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780801476099 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- Colonies in literature
- Slavery in literature
- Orientalism in literature
- Colonization -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Slavery -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Orientalism -- France -- History -- 18th century
- Material culture -- Social aspects -- France -- History -- 18th cent ury
- France -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century
- France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-326) and index.
Part 1: East meets West -- Reorienting slavery -- Oriental veneers - - The "fabric of two worlds" -- Part 2: Savages and slaves -- The trope of colonial encounter -- Slaves and the Noble Savage -- Part 3: Libert y, equality, economy -- Colonial political economy -- Economic sentimen ts.
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