Slavery, empathy, and pornography
Considering the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of English from the late-18th to the mid-19th centuries, this title shows that slavery was, and still is, a dilemma for everyone in England, and seeks to explain why English society has constructed Atlantic slavery in the way it has.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 467 p. : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780198187202, 0198187203
186616978
List of plates ; Introduction ; 1. Slavery, testimony, propaganda: John Newton, William Cowper, and compulsive confession ; 2. Slavery, empathy, and pornography in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam ; 3. William Cobbett, John Thelwall radicalism, racism, and slavery ; 4. Slavery and Romantic poetry ; 5. 'Born to be a destroyer of slavery': Harriet Martineau fixing slavery and slavery as a fix ; 6. Canons to the right of them and canons to the left of them: Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, and memorial subversions of slavery ; 7. The anatomy of bigotry: Carlyle, Ruskin slavery, and the new language of race ; Conclusion ; Bibliography