Cristobal Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristobal Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristobal |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Georgic Fantasies
This essay argues that James Grainger encodes a form of colonial dislocation in his 1764 “West-India georgic” poem, The Sugar-Cane . This dislocation is most visible in Grainger’s ongoing struggle to represent slave labor in the poem as well as in his commitment to imagining the centrality of poetic labor to the colonial project. Ultimately, the essay reads The Sugar-Cane ’s many thematic and formal disruptions--which tend to be represented as ev…
Transformable Race
Epidemiology as Method
Miraculous Plagues
This book reimagines New England’s literary history by tracing seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century epidemics alongside the era of early colonial expansion, the Antinomian controversy, the evolution of the halfway covenant and jeremiad, and Boston’s 1721 inoculation controversy. Moving beyond familiar histories of New World epidemics (often referred to as the “virgin soil” model), the book identifies epidemiology as a generic category with s…
Miraculous Plagues
This book reimagines New England’s literary history by tracing seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century epidemics alongside the era of early colonial expansion, the Antinomian controversy, the evolution of the halfway covenant and jeremiad, and Boston’s 1721 inoculation controversy. Moving beyond familiar histories of New World epidemics (often referred to as the “virgin soil” model), the book identifies epidemiology as a generic category with s…
Georgic Fantasies
This essay argues that James Grainger encodes a form of colonial dislocation in his 1764 “West-India georgic” poem, The Sugar-Cane . This dislocation is most visible in Grainger’s ongoing struggle to represent slave labor in the poem as well as in his commitment to imagining the centrality of poetic labor to the colonial project. Ultimately, the essay reads The Sugar-Cane ’s many thematic and formal disruptions--which tend to be represented as ev…
Miraculous Plagues
This book reimagines New England’s literary history by tracing seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century epidemics alongside the era of early colonial expansion, the Antinomian controversy, the evolution of the halfway covenant and jeremiad, and Boston’s 1721 inoculation controversy. Moving beyond familiar histories of New World epidemics (often referred to as the “virgin soil” model), the book identifies epidemiology as a generic category with s…
Epidemiology as Method
Transformable Race
Georgic Fantasies
This essay argues that James Grainger encodes a form of colonial dislocation in his 1764 “West-India georgic” poem, The Sugar-Cane . This dislocation is most visible in Grainger’s ongoing struggle to represent slave labor in the poem as well as in his commitment to imagining the centrality of poetic labor to the colonial project. Ultimately, the essay reads The Sugar-Cane ’s many thematic and formal disruptions--which tend to be represented as ev…
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