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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... become . Although antislavery advo- cates were horrified , the case was subsumed under British insurance law , and the insurance company refused to pay slave owners anything . Apparently , death from " natural causes " was not covered ...
... become zoned for commercial activity , and beyond that , for colonial exploitation . Following the three celebrated journeys of Captain James Cook , executed between 1768 and 1779 , Britain initiated thousands more voyages British ...
... become prime minister of postcolo- nial Trinidad and Tobago , in his 1944 Capitalism and Slavery.45 With originality and striking persuasion , Williams argued that the British slave trade , with all the money and industry it generated ...
... become antiquated , by frequent , minute , and disgusting exposure , which afforded no opportunity to awaken , suspend , and delight curiosity , by a subtle and surprising development of plot ; and con- cerning which public feeling had ...
... become not - self in the face of the other . In fact , the loss of self recorded with such dramatic in- tensity by abolitionist poets was integral to the poetic theory of many Romantic writers . In 1819 ( to return to the example this ...
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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 |