Consuming Anxieties
Subtitle: Consumer Protest, Gender & British Slavery, 1713-1833
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: August 28, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780804731034
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Literature And Society; 18th Century Literature - History And Criticism; Politics / Current Events; English; Literary Criticism; Political History; Political Science / General; General; Consumption (Economics); Great Britain; History; Slavery; Women abolitionists
Description: "The book examines the history of consurmer protests against colonialism from 1713 to 1833 - from the Treaty of Utrecht to the abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean. Recognizing the impact of consumerism on perceptions of the colonial periphery during this period reveals the crucial role of commodity fetishism in colonialist ideology. Acknowledging the effects of colonial and mercantile expansion on domestic consumer practices explains some of the anxiety surrounding colonial commodities.

This book's analysis of gender illuminates the ways in which colonialism permeated not only the public sphere of politics and trade, but also the seemingly private realms of domesticity and sentiment."--BOOK JACKET.