Slavery and the Romantic ImaginationUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 14.09.2017 - 312 Seiten Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title |
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... Europe Supported by Africa & America " 3. Blake , " Mecco & Kishee Kishee Monkeys " 4. Blake , " Quato & Saccawinkee Monkeys " 5. Stubbs , Green Monkey 71 6. Blake , illustration for Gay's Fables 7. Camper's " facial angles " 74-75 8 ...
... Europe had about the cultures they were exploiting . " Both the gothic novel and racist discourse manipulate deeply buried anxieties , " writes Malchow ; both take up " fear of con- tamination , both present the threatened destruction ...
... Europeans had been able to look with cold remove on the slave trade because of its sheer physical distance from them . The trip from a British slave port such as Liverpool , Bristol , London , or Hull to a destination along the coast of ...
... Europeans and Americans . The term he used repeatedly to evoke guilt in his readers was " self - interest . " " Can it be possible , " he wrote , " for an honest man to think that with a view to self - interest we may continue slavery ...
... Europe , and pre - Colombian America record slavery in its vari- ous forms . It has been endorsed by the world's major ... European cities , such as Venice , Seville , Lisbon , and Antwerp.23 From the fourteenth right through to the ...
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Hazards and Horrors in the Slave Colonies | 45 |
Distant Diseases Yellow Fever in Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 47 |
Intimacy as Imitation Monkeys in Blakes Engravings for Stedmans Narrative | 66 |
Fascination and Fear in Africa | 121 |
African Embraces Voodoo and Possession in Keatss Lamia | 123 |
Mapping Interiors African Cartography Nile Poetry and Percy Bysshe Shelleys The Witch of Atlas | 142 |
Proximitys Monsters Ethnography and AntiSlavery Law in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein | 171 |
Intimate Distance African Women and Infant Death in Wordsworths Poetry and The History of Mary Prince | 194 |
Afterword | 223 |
Notes | 225 |
Selected Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 295 |
Facing Slavery in Britain | 169 |