Slavery and the Romantic ImaginationUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 14.09.2017 - 312 Seiten Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title |
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... Map of Africa 35. " Narina , a Young Gonaquais " 36. Africa , Damberger's Travels 37. Abolitionist motifs and mottoes 151 153 155 163 213 Texts and Abbreviations Unless otherwise stated , all quotations are X Illustrations.
... abolitionist poetry , and slave nar- ratives , the more I began to see signs of slavery in imaginative works . This was especially true of works that had come to be thought of as direct products of the Romantic imagination because they ...
... abolitionist poetry , but being products of mid - twentieth- century literary criticism , there is no attempt to explain underlying theoretical similarities or differences between the Romantic and abolitionist movements . More than ...
... abolitionist movement using historical sources , but with a focus on visual arts . He examines a large variety of such sources , ranging from trite pro- paganda engravings to J. M. W. Turner's grand landscapes.16 For a specific inquiry ...
... abolitionists , such as Granville Sharp , who was more closely connected with the case than most people , took Mansfield's decision to mean " the exercise of the power of a Master over his Slave must be supported by the Law of the ...
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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 |