Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, Vol.35, pp.27-51
2006
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7282/T38C9TN7
Abstract
Genre theory Colonial Jamaica Journal of a West India Proprietor Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818 Jamaica
My study of the Journal of a West India Proprietor examines the political implications of the text's generic strategies and explores how these generic strategies catalogue interior struggles between idealism and self-interest.