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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... Shelley's " The Witch of Atlas " Part IV : Facing Slavery in Britain 142 7 Proximity's Monsters : Ethnography and Anti - Slavery Law in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 171 9 123 8 Intimate Distance : African Women and Infant Death in.
Debbie Lee. 8 Intimate Distance : African Women and Infant Death in Wordsworth's Poetry and The History of Mary Prince Afterword 223 Notes 225 Selected Bibliography 263 Index 285 Acknowledgments 295 194 Illustrations 68 1. Detail ...
... distance with a subtle vengeance by bringing his case into the rhetorical arena of human rights . He insists on the right to food ( sugar to sweeten his water ) ; to shelter ( rusty nails to repair his hut ) ; and to ownership of his ...
... distance . Before this , Europeans had been able to look with cold remove on the slave trade because of its sheer physical distance from them . The trip from a British slave port such as Liverpool , Bristol , London , or Hull to a ...
... distance to challenge the psychological remoteness of most Europeans and Americans . The term he used repeatedly to evoke guilt in his readers was " self - interest . " " Can it be possible , " he wrote , " for an honest man to think ...
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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 |