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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... , it is not itself — it has no self . -John Keats The only absolute value is the human possibility of giving the other priority over oneself . -Emmanuel Levinas Introduction I I have always been fascinated by the idea.
Debbie Lee. Introduction I I have always been fascinated by the idea that the Romantic imagination can reveal things hidden to the naked eye . So when I began this study I wondered what the imagination revealed about slavery , which was ...
... idea in his 1992 book British Romantic Writers and the East : Anxieties of Em- pire . Alan Richardson , drawing on Leask , highlights the ambivalence that such anxiety produces . He puts it this way : " If the treatment of empire in ...
... idea is at the heart of the Romantic imagination , from Blake's notion of " self - annihilation " to Keats's claim that the poet has " no self . " This book , then , is an attempt to account for empathy in the Romantics ' theory of ...
... idea of self - interest and to combat the belief that ordinary Britons were simply detached parties in a slave system beyond their control . In 1791 , the radical abolitionist William Fox wrote specifically about bridging distance based ...
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 |