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Examines the representation of criminality and convicts in the work of George Barrington and argues that his stunningly successful Voyage to Botany Bay (1795) is a significant response to the popular anxiety that convicts are carriers of social contamination and physical disease, at a time when the implicit association was made between criminals and colonial subjects, who needed to be physically segregated from Britain in order to maintain the stability of the domestic order.
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- A Voyage to Botany Bay with a Description of the Country, Manners, Customs, Religion, &c. of the Natives 1795 single work non-fiction
- ca. 1780-1800
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