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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... say about slavery . To put the Romantic imagination in close proximity to the horrifying details of slavery seemed plain wrong . Still , the more I read from the period's discourses on slavery in parliamen- tary papers , travel ...
... says Hickey , " some sort of imperialism is implicitly ascribed " to the Wordsworthian imagination because it champions " the incorporation of otherness , the forging of unity from difference . " She goes on to say that the ...
... say that the products of the Romantic imagination simply obliterated the power differential between self and other in the name of empa- thy , but that writers forged the Romantic imagination , in large part , because of their continued ...
... says , but in any case it " com- plicate [ s ] texts , sometimes contradicting them entirely . " The African presence " serve [ s ] the text by further problematizing its matter with resonances and lumi- nations . " Linguistic responses ...
... says something about the significant shift taking place during this period between African slaves and British masters . Among these complaints , the case of " Tommy " stands out.2 On 9 February 1819 , Tommy appeared before the fiscal ...
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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 |