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- Title
The African Artisan Meets the English Sailor: Technology and the Savage for Defoe.
- Authors
Walmsley, Peter
- Abstract
A literary analysis of the novel "Captain Singleton" by Daniel Defoe is presented. Focusing on scenes that describe Mozambican artifacts, the story of a rebellion aboard a slave ship, and a meeting with a naked Englishman in Africa, it argues that Defoe depicts savagery as a product of history rather than a result of inherent incapacity. The author goes on to suggest that the novel indicates the technologies that made Great Britain a global power could be lost or forgotten.
- Subjects
AFRICA; CAPTAIN Singleton (Book : Defoe); DEFOE, Daniel, ca. 1661-1731; BRITISH people; 18TH century British history; TECHNOLOGY &; civilization; HISTORY; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, 2018, Vol 59, Issue 3, p347
- ISSN
0193-5380
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/ecy.2018.0019