The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman

John Gabriel Stedman, Jared Ross Hardesty

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781647921569
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early Modern History
• Index: History

"Jared Ross Hardesty's new critical edition, The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman, makes an important and necessary intervention into the study of eighteenth-century Caribbean travel writing and natural history by foregrounding the previously unpublished diary entries Stedman authored in Suriname, rather than focusing solely on his writings printed in the metropoles of Europe. Hardesty's edition is especially useful because it includes both a transcription of Stedman's Suriname diary and a detailed appendix tracking key discrepancies between the diary and Stedman's heavily revised printed natural history. This focus on genre and the editorial process in the production of Anglophone transatlantic writing is an excellent resource for students and scholars of the eighteenth-century Caribbean and the Atlantic World. I can see this being a helpful resource in an early American or eighteenth-century history or literature course, as it would enable students to easily compare differing editions of Stedman's Suriname writings. What Hardesty's edition of The Suriname Writings of John Gabriel Stedman offers is a more accessible study of how eighteenth-century writing on maroonage, slavery, science, and abolition was heavily mediated in the print and production process, as this compiled edition offers critical insight into the gendered and racial politics of life in the colonial Caribbean as well as how printers in the metropole attempted to alter the writing of colonizing authors like Stedman."
—Elizabeth Polcha, Drexel University

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Map
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Reading This Edition
• The Suriname Diary of John Gabriel Stedman
• The Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1796)
• Appendix
• Further Reading
• Index
• Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing