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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... poem manifests am- bivalence in its own manner . " 7 Anxiety has been used , more recently , in Alan Bewell's excellent study of Romanticism and Colonial Disease ( 1999 ) . One of the goals of Bewell's book is to explore the " deepening ...
... poem is a work of " pure imagination , " arguing instead that it " may reenact , consciously or unconsciously , the rapidly shifting political events in England . " 14 While Keane does recreate the politics of slavery behind the images ...
... poems , and radical political treatises . Wood , like Thomas , ex- plains the abolitionist movement using historical sources , but with a ... poem , this is not surprising , at least according to Toni Morrison , in her stunning Introduction.
... poets . They were the subject of a play called " Mungo's Address , " a song by the duchess of Devonshire called " A Negro Song from Park's Travels " and a poem by Felicia Hemans . James Montgomery quoted Park in his popular abolitionist ...
... poems and novels and stage performances , medical tracts and anatomical inquiries , African travelogues and West Indian ... poem The West Indies ( 1809 J , Monk Lewis's play The Castle Spectre ( 1798 J , Maria Edgeworth's novel Grateful ...
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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 |