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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... face of slavery . In fact , many of these writers suggest that the enormous violations of their era can only be met with absurdly small acts of recompense , such as the blessing of water snakes in " The Ancient Mariner . " Yet key ...
... face of the worldwide changes of slavery and French imperialism . The Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa - or the African As- sociation , as it was called - came into being in 1788 owing to the ...
... face of the other . In fact , the loss of self recorded with such dramatic in- tensity by abolitionist poets was integral to the poetic theory of many Romantic writers . In 1819 ( to return to the example this book begins with ) , the ...
... face " and " responsibility for the other . " 34 But most of all , Levinas's philosophy is attractive because he ... face - to - face encounter : " Transcendence is what turns its face towards us , " he writes . Further , thought ...
... face - to - face with the alterity of the radical other of that period : the slave self . It approximates Shelleyan " going out of our own natures " and Keatsian " disinterestedness . " In fact , Levinas uses the term " dis - inter ...
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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 |