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Jared Ross Hardesty''s new critical edition, The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman, makes an important and necessary intervention into the study of eighteenth-century Caribbean travel writing and natural history by foregrounding the previously unpublished diary entries Stedman authored in Suriname, rather than focusing solely on his writings printed in the metropoles of Europe. Hardesty''s edition is especially useful because it includes both a transcription of Stedman''s Suriname diary and a detailed appendix tracking key discrepancies between the diary and Stedman''s heavily revised printed natural history. This focus on genre and the editorial process in the production of Anglophone transatlantic writing is an excellent resource for students and scholars of the eighteenth-century Caribbean and the Atlantic World. I can see this being a helpful resource in an early American or eighteenth-century history or literature course, as it would enable students to easily compar

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Jared Ross Hardesty''s new critical edition, The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman, makes an important and necessary intervention into... Read more

    Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
    Publication Date: 1/25/2024
    ISBN13: 9781647921545, 978-1647921545
    ISBN10: 1647921546

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    Jared Ross Hardesty''s new critical edition, The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman, makes an important and necessary intervention into the study of eighteenth-century Caribbean travel writing and natural history by foregrounding the previously unpublished diary entries Stedman authored in Suriname, rather than focusing solely on his writings printed in the metropoles of Europe. Hardesty''s edition is especially useful because it includes both a transcription of Stedman''s Suriname diary and a detailed appendix tracking key discrepancies between the diary and Stedman''s heavily revised printed natural history. This focus on genre and the editorial process in the production of Anglophone transatlantic writing is an excellent resource for students and scholars of the eighteenth-century Caribbean and the Atlantic World. I can see this being a helpful resource in an early American or eighteenth-century history or literature course, as it would enable students to easily compar

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