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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... Park . In July of 1794 , Park , an unemployed ship's surgeon , found himself in London's Thatched House Tavern in a meeting with Banks . Though the two were opposites in many ways - Banks was rotund , privileged , and , by this time ...
... Park's estimation , Africans were sometimes fierce , sometimes friendly , most of the time clever , but never subservient . At one of his particularly vulnerable moments , Park is told by the villagers of Bambarra that he must wait ...
... Park and his exploration of Africa are viewed in the same light as African slavery , as a shameful legacy . Mary Louise Pratt , for instance , features Mungo Park as one of the key agents of empire , written about through the myth of ...
... Park's , and medical treatises like Letters and Essays on [ diseases ] of the West Indies ( 1787 ) . The debate also impinged upon works of natural history and science like Charles White's Account of the Regular Gradations in Man ( 1799 ) ...
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Tartalomjegyzék
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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 |