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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... kind of study , coins the term " tropicalization " as a postcolonial response to eighteenth - century colonial discourse . Essentially a set of " practices of discursive revision and reversal , " 5 tropicalization is resistant as a way ...
... kind of language that articulated the anxieties Europe had about the cultures they were exploiting . " Both the gothic novel and racist discourse manipulate deeply buried anxieties , " writes Malchow ; both take up " fear of con ...
... kind of victim , from poor street urchins , to abandoned women , to mistreated prisoners . Yet , ironi- cally , the sentimental movement , according to Lively , was devoted to refining the sensibilities of the white liberal middle class ...
... kind of criminal confusion because they were " distant " in the sense that they were indifferent to how they treated others . Tommy draws attention to this distance with a subtle vengeance by bringing his case into the rhetorical arena ...
... kind are created free agents , and it is only arbitrary force that perverts the gifts of God and nature . " Others proclaimed it a judgment in " universal liberty " and even the country's fervent abolitionists , such as Granville Sharp ...
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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 |