Toby R Benis
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toby R Benis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toby R |
| FAMILY NAME | Benis |
| SIGNATURE | BENIS T R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Romantic Diasporas
Romantic Diasporasexamines exile in the Romantic period fromthe different perspectives of French émigrés in England, British convicts transported to Australia, and Jews in their perennial diaspora.
Beyond the Convict Taint
T he unprecedented influx of French emigrants into Britain during the 1790s was the mirror image of another forced migration: the groups of convicts transported to Botany Bay, Britain’s first imperial venture instituted solely as a means of containing and punishing its criminal classes. After American independence ended transatlantic transportation, a backlog of convicts in the 1780s overcrowded gaols where disease and alarms over prisoner uprisi…
Criminal Transport
Examines the representation of criminality and convicts in the work of George Barrington and argues that his stunningly successful Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) is a significant response to the popular anxiety that convicts are carriers of social contamination and physical disease, at a time when the implicit association was made between criminals and colonial subjects, who needed to be physically segregated from Britain in order to maintain the st…
Criminal Transport
Examines the representation of criminality and convicts in the work of George Barrington and argues that his stunningly successful Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) is a significant response to the popular anxiety that convicts are carriers of social contamination and physical disease, at a time when the implicit association was made between criminals and colonial subjects, who needed to be physically segregated from Britain in order to maintain the st…
Criminal Transport
Examines the representation of criminality and convicts in the work of George Barrington and argues that his stunningly successful Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) is a significant response to the popular anxiety that convicts are carriers of social contamination and physical disease, at a time when the implicit association was made between criminals and colonial subjects, who needed to be physically segregated from Britain in order to maintain the st…
Romantic Diasporas
Romantic Diasporasexamines exile in the Romantic period fromthe different perspectives of French émigrés in England, British convicts transported to Australia, and Jews in their perennial diaspora.
Beyond the Convict Taint
T he unprecedented influx of French emigrants into Britain during the 1790s was the mirror image of another forced migration: the groups of convicts transported to Botany Bay, Britain’s first imperial venture instituted solely as a means of containing and punishing its criminal classes. After American independence ended transatlantic transportation, a backlog of convicts in the 1780s overcrowded gaols where disease and alarms over prisoner uprisi…
History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Alien (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)