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- Title
Insect Poetics: James Grainger, Personification, and Enlightenments Not Taken.
- Authors
ALLEWAERT, MONIQUE
- Abstract
The article explores the theme of personification in the aesthetics and poetics of the poem "The Sugar-Cane," by James Grainger. Emphasis is given to the representation of insects in the text as sources of animation in the colonial aesthetics of the Enlightenment. Other topics include the social aspects of colonial exchange, organization in tropology, and the epistemic limits of modernity.
- Subjects
SUGAR-Cane, The (Poem); GRAINGER, James; PERSONIFICATION in literature; IMPERIALISM &; literature; INSECTS in literature; ENLIGHTENMENT; AESTHETICS; POETICS; HISTORY; REVOLUTIONARY (Literary period); 19TH century (Literary period)
- Publication
Early American Literature, 2017, Vol 52, Issue 2, p299
- ISSN
0012-8163
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/eal.2017.0027