Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope, Gay.(Book review)

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

Slavery and Augustan Literature: Swift, Pope, Gay. By John Richardson. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature, 2) London and New York: Routledge. 2004. xi+187 pp. 58 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-415-31286-8.

When patriotic Britons sang in the 1740s that they never would be slaves, they were thinking less of Africans working on plantations than of subservience to a despotic France. John Richardson begins his study by outlining the several literal and metaphorical senses of the word 'slave', including the one most familiar from Pope's usage: a political ...

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