Colonialism Flashcards
(37 cards)
When did Alexander Pope first work on ‘Windsor-Forest’?
c.1707
When was the first edition of ‘Windsor-Forest’ published?
1713
What does Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding say about pictorial representations of imported goods?
‘The subtle elision of marked references to slave labour from pictorial narratives… enabled Britons to justify and legitimise the expansion of imperial trade and colonialism’
What does Carl Plasa say about James Grainger’s presentation of slave labour in ‘The Sugar-Cane’?
‘Grainger attempts to manufacture and maintain a poetic world purged of slavery’s more disturbing elements, only to find them persisting in residual forms’
What does Pope say in ‘Windsor Forest’ about India and its relationship to Britain?
‘Let barb’rous Ganges arm a servile train’
What does Pope say about the English flag in ‘Windsor Forest’
‘half thy trees rush into my Floods, / Bear Britain’s thunder, and her [bloody] cross display’
What paradox does Pope say in ‘Windsor Forest’?
‘O stretch thy Reign, fair Peace! From Shore to Shore,
Till Conquest cease, and Slav’ry be no more’
How are the playing cards described in the game of Ombre in ‘The Rape of the Lock’
‘Asia’s troops and Africk’s sable sons’
What company did Alexander Pope have shares in, and when did he buy?
The South Sea Company, 1720
When was James Grainger’s ‘The Sugar-Cane’ published?
1764
What lines in ‘The Sugar-Cane’ equate plantation management with art?
‘As art transforms the savage face of things
And order captivates the harmonious mind;
Let not thy Blacks irregularly hoe’
What does Edward Said say of narrative focus, in a cultural context?
‘In reading a text, one must open it out both to what went into it and to what its author excluded’
What mythical description of the slaves does Grainger use in ‘The Sugar-Cane’?
‘The brawling Naiads for the planters toil’
What is Grainger’s aim in describing the exotica in ‘The Sugar-Caine’?
‘to enrich poetry with many new and picturesque images’
What does John Richardson detect in ‘Windsor Forest’’s rhetoric?
‘euphemistic avoidance’
What does Simon Jarvis view the function of ‘mock’ as, which can be twisted to be something more sinister?
Mock as ‘screen’, which ‘shield[s] the onlooker from that greatness which must not be encountered’
What does Stewart Crehan conclude of the ‘mock’ attitude in ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
‘Mock-epic periphrases… tends to depersonalise’
When was the two-canto ‘Rape of the Lock’ published?
1712
What line demonstrates the denial of subjectivity for slaves in ‘Sugar-Cane’?
‘‘The Negroe-train, with placid looks, survey / Thy fields’
What object demonstrates the collectible nature of colonialism in ‘The Rape of the Lock’?
‘all Arabia breathes from yonder box. Tortoise here and elephant unite, / Transformed to Combs’
What does the historian Maxine Berg argue occurs in the 18th century with regard to foreign luxuries?
a ‘shift in the meaning of luxury from excess to convenience and enjoyment’
What did the development of a taste for foreign luxuries do to domestic production, according to Maxine Berg?
It engendered a practice of ‘imitation’
What does James Grainger refer to the writing of ‘The Suger-Cane’ as?
‘this arduous undertaking’
What does James Grainger say about adding notes to his poem, ‘The Sugar-Cane’?
‘the obscure poem affords both less pleasure and less profit to the reader. – For the same reason, some notes have been added’
