| Sumario: | Catherine Ingrassia's book, "Domestic Captivity and the British Subject, 1660–1750," explores the language of captivity in 18th-century British literature and its representation of material practices and cultural attitudes. Ingrassia focuses on the domestic captivity of British subjects, particularly women, and how it existed alongside the plantation slavery of transported Africans. She analyzes works by popular authors of the time, such as Aphra Behn and Richard Steele, to demonstrate how the discourse of captivity was shaped by Britain's colonial enterprises. Ingrassia's book provides valuable insights into the cultural history of slavery and the entanglement of material and metaphoric forms of captivity in the British Atlantic world.
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