Marcus Wood

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, chapters focus on the writings of the major Romantic poets, English Radicals William Cobbett and John Thelwall, the Surinam writings of John Stedman, the full range of slavery texts generated by Harriet Martineau, John Newton, and the social prophets Carlyle and Ruskin. Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography also contains a radical new critique of the operations of slavery within the work of Austen and Charlotte Bronte.

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This study considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of England from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Marcus Wood writes from the conviction 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 247mm x 164mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 976g
• ISBN-13: 9780198187202
• ISBN-10: 0198187203
• Artikelnr.: 21906563

Inhaltsangabe

* 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