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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... 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 Embraces : Voodoo and ...
... Disease ( 1999 ) . One of the goals of Bewell's book is to explore the " deepening British understanding of the scale and extent of colonial disease and mortality and the 2 Introduction.
Debbie Lee. scale and extent of colonial disease and mortality and the growing anxiety their insecurity aroused . " 8 Perhaps the best summary of the range of responses that Romantic writers had to empire is found in the introduction to ...
... Liverpool to the west coast of Africa , and then with a cargo of 470 Africans bound for Jamaica . Disease and death tore through the ship , and in less than three months over sixty Africans and British Slavery and African Exploration 11.
... disease and ambushed by the Africans , they most likely drowned in the Niger . Given this fact , it is not surprising that today , among historians and liter- ary critics , Mungo Park and his exploration of Africa are viewed in the same ...
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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 |