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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... Ballads , which seem impossible to lay aside even after we have finished reading them , also deliver something larger : an inquiry into the nature of empathy . PART I History and Imagination 1 British Slavery and African 6 Introduction.
... nature , that it is incapable of being now introduced by courts of justice upon mere reasoning or inferences from any principles , natural or politi- cal ; it must take its rise from positive law ; the origin of it can in no country or ...
... natural causes " was inevitable , he proposed that the crew throw the remaining sick slaves overboard . He argued that this would only bring a slightly earlier death to people who would die any- way , which in turn would leave the ...
... nature and culture of foreign places . Here Banks assembled a massive library , open to scholars of all kinds , and , more impressively , tens of thousands of specimens , including many of the 30,000 he had collected on the Endeavour ...
... natural justice & Commercial benefit . " 44 This link between African exploration and the demise of British slavery has been carefully critiqued by present - day historians . Most agree , in fact , that abo- litionists acted , to a ...
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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 |