Literary Debate on the American Civil War:

Goldwin Smith and the Problems of Equality in Global Mercantilism (of Cotton)

Authors

  • Debashis Bandyopadhyay

Keywords:

Goldwin Smith, Global Mercantilism, American Civil War, Slavery

Abstract

The article takes up the diplomatic texts of Goldwin Smith such as economic treatises and epistles and demonstrates the irony within the imperial discourse where the liberal democratic strain reveals a curious counterpoint in its insistence on global imperial mercantilism. It underscores the ironic contrast between Smith’s anti-slavery position in America and his preaching of colonial cultivation in India, resulting in the cotton famine of 1877-78.

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Author Biography

Debashis Bandyopadhyay

Debashis Bandyopadhyay is Professor of English at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. As a Fulbright Scholar he was associated with California State University. Fresno, CA, USA and as a Charles Wallace Fellow he pursued postdoctoral research at St. Antony’s College in Oxford University. Widely published around the world his research interests include American Civil War and Globalization, Identity and Psychoanalytic interpretation. His book Locating the Anglo-Indian Self in Ruskin Bond: A Postcolonial Review, published from New York and London by Anthem Press, has been shortlisted by the Washington DC Higher Education Chronicle.

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Published

2021-10-28

How to Cite

Bandyopadhyay, D. (2021). Literary Debate on the American Civil War:: Goldwin Smith and the Problems of Equality in Global Mercantilism (of Cotton). Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 1(2), 149–157. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/38

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (2015): Democracy, Resistance, and the Practice of Literature

Section

Articles