Slavery and the Romantic ImaginationUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. szept. 14. - 312 oldal Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title |
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... figures of Blake , Coleridge , Wordsworth , Keats , Shelley , and Byron . But Baum , like earlier critics , offers no theoretical explanation of the interaction between the poetry and politics of the day . 13 The first step toward ...
... figures , numbers and dimensions , and stories of ill treatment , he brought in actual iron instruments used on slave ... Figure 1 J . The drawing , in fact , has remained a sort of icon of the visual horror of the slave trade ever since ...
... Figure 1. Detail , Thomas Clarkson , 1789. Courtesy of Wilberforce House , Hull City Mu- seums and Art Galleries , UK / Bridgeman Art Library , London . labor have been aspects of many cultures and time periods . Ancient civilizations ...
... figure who has achieved heroic status , was the leader of the rebellion where 200 slaves were killed and at least 340 more put to death in torturous trials that followed the uprising . Sharpe himself was one of the last to die , on 23 ...
... figure , with darkly defined eyebrows , a dimpled chin , and sturdy hands , Banks was at the imperial center of Britain for at least fifty years . Although Banks does not survive in the popular consciousness the way other fig- ures have ...
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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 |