| Description |
ix, 467 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [428]-456) and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- List of plates -- Introduction -- Slavery, testimony, propaganda : John Newton, william Cowper, and compulsive confession -- Slavery, empathy, and pornography in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam -- William Cobbett, John Thelwall : radicalism, racism, and slavery -- Slavery and romantic poetry -- "Born to be a destroyer of slavery" : Harriet Martineau, fixing slavery and slavery as fix -- Canons to the right of them, canons to the left of them : Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, and memorial subversions of slavery -- The anatomy of bigotry : Carlyle, Ruskin, slavery, and a new language of race -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Slavery in literature.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Slavery -- Public opinion -- Great Britain -- History.
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History.
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Pornography -- Great Britain.
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Empathy in literature.
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| ISBN |
0198187203 |
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