 | Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; Tropics -- In literature; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century; Gardening -- History -- 18th century; Gardening -- History -- 19th century; ; How the art and literature of the British Empire reflected its dominion over the resources of tropical colonies. Beth Fowkes Tobin is Professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting and Superintending the Poor: Charitable Ladies and Paternal Landlords in British Fiction, 1770-1860. |
