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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... fact that its politics were often contained in poems about Grecian urns or ruined cottages or magical lands like Xanadu made me wonder just what imagination could say about slavery . To put the Romantic imagination in close proximity to ...
... 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 Romantic works like " The ...
... fact that they appear at all says something about the significant shift taking place during this period between African slaves and British masters . Among these complaints , the case of " Tommy " stands out.2 On 9 February 1819 , Tommy ...
... fact , the most famous case in the history of the institution — that of James Somerset- was an effort to keep slavery physically distant . In 1771 , nearly half a century before Tommy's complaint , the slave James Somerset was ordered ...
... - five thousand miles between 1788 and 1795 alone , establishing local antislavery organizations all over the country and collecting facts and artifacts about the British slave trade that would help convince anyone , from 14 Chapter 1.
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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 |