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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... person or place and the " suppression of its potentially threatening aspect . " 3 Likewise , Saree Makdisi , in his 1999 Romantic Imperialism : Universal Empire and the Cul- ture of Modernity , asserts that , though Romantics criticized ...
... person , the fact that they appear at all says something about the significant shift taking place during this period between African slaves and British masters . Among these complaints , the case of " Tommy " stands out.2 On 9 February ...
... person in England , and every person in a civilized state , has a claim to the protection of its laws , as he is subject to them .... No degree of slavery can subsist in a free state ; all man- kind are created free agents , and it is ...
... person , but from the perspective of the Afri- can witnessing a scene of horror equal to that of the Zong . " To place this in the clearest , and most conspicuous point of view , " Clarkson writes , " I shall suppose myself on a ...
... person bore because of it . Indeed , even though transatlantic slavery was an inherited problem for Romantic audiences , it carried some peculiarly shameful aspects compared to other forms of slavery . Transatlantic slavery was ...
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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 |