Refusing Settler Georgics.

This essay recovers and seeks to refuse a harmful and enduring eighteenthcentury fiction: settler georgic, an imperial mode that North American settlers used to foreclose refusal, naturalize British understandings of cultivation and use, and figure violent dispossession as both inevitable and in the...

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Published in:Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 7 - 37
Main Author: O’Briain, Katarina
Format: Article
Published: University of Toronto Press Jan2024
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