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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... Colonies 3 Distant Diseases : Yellow Fever in Coleridge's " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner " 47 4 Intimacy as Imitation : Monkeys in Blake's Engravings for Stedman's Narrative 66 Part III : Fascination and Fear in Africa 5 African ...
... colonial discourse . Essentially a set of " practices of discursive revision and reversal , " 5 tropicalization is ... Colonial Disease ( 1999 ) . One of the goals of Bewell's book is to explore the " deepening British understanding of ...
Debbie Lee. scale and extent of colonial disease and mortality and the growing anxiety their insecurity aroused . " 8 ... Colonialism . " Although nineteenth- century colonialism is a thing of the past , " they write , " imperialism is ...
... colonial legislatures in the Caribbean to be more accountable for their African populations . 1 At this time , the colony at Berbice started keeping a " book of minutes " recording the com- plaints of slaves , which were then published ...
... colonies , or in Britain for that matter , could no longer distance themselves from the violence of slavery as they had done for nearly three hundred years . But how did this brutally distant attitude occur in the first place ? Part of ...
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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 |