Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Postcolonial Studies'This book convincingly challenges both the extremely short historical memory of most postcolonial work and the all too insularly English world still conjured by period specialists. Hogarthian whores and Grub Street hacks, coffee houses and fashionable pastimes, and the burgeoning of print culture all stand revealed as intimately bound to portents of plantation insurgency, agitation for abolition, and the vast fortunes produced by the labouring bodies