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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... reader takes , says Hickey , " some sort of imperialism is implicitly ascribed " to the Wordsworthian imagination ... reading empire . But , says Aravamudan , " rather than reifying a voice of resistance or dissent , the act of reading ...
... 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.
... readers and listeners of this case to feel for the humanity of slaves . Tommy and the other slaves who speak through these records ask not for a cursory acknowledgment of their humanity but for a deep awareness of their experience ...
... readers was " self - interest . " " Can it be possible , " he wrote , " for an honest man to think that with a view to self - interest we may continue slavery to the off- spring of these unhappy sufferers . . . and not have a share of ...
... readers . Banks recruited Bryan Edwards , who had already written the influential History , Civil and Commercial , of the British West Indies as ghostwriter . Edwards made sure Park's narrative was " interesting and entertaining , " and ...
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The Distanced Imagination | 29 |
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 |
Facing Slavery in Britain | 169 |