African impressions : how African worldviews shaped the British geographical imagination across the early Enlightenment / Rebekah Mitsein.
Mitsein, Rebekah, 1983- author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2022
PR448.A38 M58 2022
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Title African impressions : how African worldviews shaped the British geographical imagination across the early Enlightenment / Rebekah Mitsein.
Author Mitsein, Rebekah, 1983- author.
ISBN 9780813947914
081394791X
9780813947891
9780813947907
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number PR448.A38 M58 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 820.9326
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 15, 2022).
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Series Walker Cowen Memorial Prize.
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Introduction
"Wherein the Blacke-Prince Keepes His Residence, Attended by His Jetty Coloured Traine": Impressions of the Western Sudan, 1324-1620
"A Country of Blacks So Called": The Romance of African Impressions in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
"A Medium of an Endless Correspondence": Rivers for Want of Empires in the African Impressions of Daniel Defoe's Captain Singleton and Atlas Maritimus and Commercialis
"Where the Nile Riseth . . . Where the Queen of Saba Lived": Impressions of Abyssinia, 1327-1759
"Between the Inland Countries of Africk and the Ports of the Red Sea": African Impressions amid Fact and Fancy in Samuel Johnson's Rasselas "Descended from the Queen of Saba": African Women as Geographical Authorities in James Bruce's Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile
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