Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Muse Suppress the Tale’: James Grainger's The Sugar-Cane and the Poetry of Refinement
- 2 ‘Stained with Spots of Human Blood’: Sugar, Abolition and Cannibalism
- 3 ‘Conveying away the Trash’: Sweetening Slavery in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor, Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
- 4 ‘Sugared Almonds and Pink Lozenges’: George Eliot's ‘Brother Jacob’ as Literary Confection
- 5 ‘Cane is a Slaver’: Sugar Men and Sugar Women in Postcolonial Caribbean Poetry
- 6 ‘Daughters Sacrificed to Strangers’: Interracial Desires and Intertextual Memories in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge
- 7 ‘Somebody Kill Somebody, Then?’: The Sweet Revenge of Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe
- Bibliography
- Index
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Frontmatter
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Muse Suppress the Tale’: James Grainger's The Sugar-Cane and the Poetry of Refinement
- 2 ‘Stained with Spots of Human Blood’: Sugar, Abolition and Cannibalism
- 3 ‘Conveying away the Trash’: Sweetening Slavery in Matthew Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor, Kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica
- 4 ‘Sugared Almonds and Pink Lozenges’: George Eliot's ‘Brother Jacob’ as Literary Confection
- 5 ‘Cane is a Slaver’: Sugar Men and Sugar Women in Postcolonial Caribbean Poetry
- 6 ‘Daughters Sacrificed to Strangers’: Interracial Desires and Intertextual Memories in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge
- 7 ‘Somebody Kill Somebody, Then?’: The Sweet Revenge of Austin Clarke's The Polished Hoe
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Slaves to SweetnessBritish and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar, pp. i - viPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2009