Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-284) and index.
Contents
pt. I. History and imagination -- British slavery and African exploration : the written legacy -- The distanced imagination -- pt. II. Hazards and horrors in the slave colonies -- Distant diseases : yellow fever in Coleridge's "The rime of the ancient mariner" -- Intimacy as imitation : monkeys in Blake's engravings for Stedman's Narrative -- pt. III. Fascination and fear in Africa -- African embraces : voodoo and possession in Keats's Lamia -- Mapping interiors : African cartography, Nile poetry, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The witch of Atlas" -- pt. IV. Facing slavery in Britain -- Proximity's monsters : ethnography and anti-slavery law in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Intimate distance : African women and infant death in Wordsworth's poetry and The history of Mary Prince.
