The exotic frontier of the imperial imagination

Eighteenth-Century Life

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 10-30

  Knellwolf, Christa ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOTANY; ETHNOBOTANY; FRANCE; HISTORY; KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SCIENCE; SYMBOLISM; UNITED KINGDOM;

BOTANY; COLONIALISM; ETHNOBOTANY; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; KNOWLEDGE; NATURAL HISTORY; POETRY; SCIENCE; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 33947507085     PISSN: 00982601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00982601-26-3-10     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. G. S. Rousseau and Roy Porter, eds., Exoticism in the Enlightenment (Manchester: Manchester Univ., 1990), 15.
2. Bernard Smith, Imagining the Pacific: In the Wake of the Cook Voyages (Melbourne: Melbourne Univ., 1992), 10.
3. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Discourses and Other Early Political Writings, ed. Victor Gourevitch (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1997), 161.
4. Rhys Jones, "Ordering the Landscape," in Seeing the First Australians, ed. Ian Donaldson and Tamsin Donaldson (Sydney: G. Allen & Unwin, 1985), 182.
5. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (London: Dent, 1966), 119.
6. Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 (New Haven: Yale Univ., 1992), 5.
7. See also Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1991), 6,
8. Eric J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1990).
9. That "exotic" primarily referred to botanical items can be verified by checking through the electronically searchable encyclopedia of Denis Diderot, et al.: Encyclopédie; ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, digitized version of the 1st ed. (Paris: 1751-72), encyclopedie.inalf.fr.
10. Georges Louis Ledere de Buffon, Histoire naturelle, géné rale et particulière, avec la description du cabinet du roi, 36 vols. (Paris: De l'imprimerie royale, 1752-68), 4:151.
11. For a discussion of Buffon's scientific project, see Aaron Garrett, "Intro.," Natural History, General and Particular (Bristol: Thoemmes, 2000), v-xx.
12. For a discussion of racial science see, e.g., Bronwen Douglas, Across the Great Divide: Journeys in History and Anthropology (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 1998).
13. Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Ouvres complètes de Buffon avec les supplémen augmentées de la classification de G. Cuvier accompagnées de belles gravures sur acier, représentant plus de 800 animaux et d'un beau portrait de Buffon, 9 vols. (Paris: Ledoux, 1844).
14. Raymond Williams, The Country and the City (London: Chatte & Windus, 1973).
15. For example, Utopias of the British Enlightenment, ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1994).
16. For a discussion of the interactions between Amerindians and European settlers during the early modern period, see V. G. Kiernan, "Noble and Ignoble Savages," in Exoticism in the Enlightenment, 86-116.
17. See also Gilbert Chinard, L'Amérique et le réve exotique dans la littérature Française au XVIIe et au XIIIe siècle (Paris: Librairie E. Droz, 1934),
18. Benjamin Bissell, The American Indian in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century (Hamdon: Archon, 1968).
19. "Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,'" in Rameau's Nephew and Other Works, trans. Jacques Barzun and Ralph H. Bowen (New York: Doubleday, 1956).
20. British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1992), 7.
21. Restif de la Bretonne, La Découverte australe par un Homme-volant, ou le Dédale français, nouvelle très-philosophique, 2 vols. (Leipsig: Imprimé à Leipsick, 1781).
22. The Travels of Sir John Mandevitte, trans. C. W. R. D. Moseley (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983).