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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... , it is not itself — it has no self . -John Keats The only absolute value is the human possibility of giving the other priority over oneself . -Emmanuel Levinas Introduction I I have always been fascinated by the idea.
... human rights . He insists on the right to food ( sugar to sweeten his water ) ; to shelter ( rusty nails to repair his hut ) ; and to ownership of his own body ( a restriction on flogging ) . He demands a say in de- fining his own humanity ...
... human beings thrown overboard ? The question after all is . Was it voluntary or an act of necessity ? This is a case of chattels or goods . It is really so : it is the case of throwing over goods ; for to this purpose , and the purpose ...
... humanity and functions of justice to be circumscribed by geographical boundaries ? ” 16 Others bridged that dis ... Human Species in the first person , but from the perspective of the Afri- can witnessing a scene of horror equal to ...
... human suffering and violence of slavery . " As then the inhumanity of this trade must be universally admitted and lamented , " the notice on the slave ship poster reads , " people would do well to consider , that it does not often fall ...
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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 |