Ancient Slavery and Abolition

From Hobbes to Hollywood
Herausgeber: Hall, Edith; McConnell, Justine; Alston, Richard

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Produktbeschreibung

A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century. Thirteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from three continents, led by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway University of London, ask how both critics and defenders of slavery in media ranging from parliamentary speeches to poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema have summoned the ghosts of the ancient Spartans, Homer, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Pliny, Spartacus, and Prometheus to support their arguments.

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A collection of essays by an international team of scholars on the part played by classical sources and images in the debates around the abolition of slavery. It shows that the ancient Greek and Roman slave was invoked both by abolitionists and by those who promoted and attempted to justify the custom.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 528
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 827g
• ISBN-13: 9780199574674
• ISBN-10: 0199574677
• Artikelnr.: 33252448

Autorenporträt

Edith Hall is Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London. Richard Alston is Professor of Roman History, Royal Holloway University of London. Edith Hall is Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London Justine McConnell is Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Edith Hall: Introduction: 'A Valuable Lesson'
* 2: Richard Alston: The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of
Freedom
* 3: Stephen Hodkinson and Edith Hall: Appropriations of Spartan
Helotage in British Antislavery Debates of the 1790s
* 4: John Hilton: The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery
Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834)
* 5: Brycchan Carey: A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on
Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry
* 6: Emily Greenwood: The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of
Phillis Wheatley
* 7: Leanne Hunnings: Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in
Bulwer's `The Last Days of Pompeii'
* 8: Edith Hall: The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and
Radicalism
* 9: S. Sara Monoson: Recollecting Aristotle: Proslavery Thought in
Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I
* 10: Margaret Malamud: The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery
through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA
* 11: David Lupher and Elizabeth Vandiver: Yankee She-Men and Octoroon
Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition
* 12: Lydia Langerwerf: Universal Slave Revolts: C.L.R. James' use of
Classical Literature in `The Black Jacobins'
* 13: Justine McConnell: Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South:
Odyssean Slavery in `Sommersby'
* Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past