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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... culture and imperial- ism and the complicity of English literature in the imperialist project .... Never- theless ... cultural imperi- alism , even as it also , in other areas , remains complicit with it " ( my emphasis ) . 9 Although ...
... culture and gothic literature , concluding that the gothic was a kind of language that articulated the anxieties Europe had about the cultures they were exploiting . " Both the gothic novel and racist discourse manipulate deeply buried ...
... culture , not the Romantic imagination . The two other recent books on the subject of Romanticism and slavery are Helen Thomas's Romanti- cism and Slave Narratives : Transatlantic Testimonies ( 2000 ) and Marcus Wood's Blind Memory ...
... cultures and time periods . Ancient civilizations in Asia , Africa , Europe , and pre - Colombian America record slavery in its vari- ous forms . It has been endorsed by the world's major religious institutions- Judaism , Hinduism ...
... culture of slavery as the polar opposite of freedom . Transatlantic slavery gave European culture its definition of freedom because in a very real sense , enslaved blacks created freedom for whites in Europe and America . Slavery within ...
Inhalt
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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 |