Chapter 2 From Curiosity to Commodity: Swift’s Writings of the 1720s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 Colonialism and the Politics of Consumerism 22
6. Chapter 2 From Curiosity to Commodity: Swift’s Writings of the 1720s 49
7. Chapter 3 Foreign Objects, Domestic Spaces: Transculturation in Humphry Clinker 81
8. Chapter 4 Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792 110
9. Chapter 5 “Reading Before Praying” Ladies’ Antislavery Societies, Textuality, Political Action, and The History of Mary Prince 130
10. Chapter 6 Overseeing Violence: Sentimental Vision and Slave Labor 159
11. Conclusion 188
12. Notes 207
13. Bibliography 232
14. Index 253