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Romantic ecologies and colonial cultures in the British Atlantic world, 1770-1850 /

Why did Afro-British writer and abolitionist Ignatius Sancho rail against the abuse of domestic animals in the eighteenth-century London marketplace? Why did Samuel Taylor Coleridge attack the institution of slavery by writing a poem about animal rights? Did William Blake's allegorical depictio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hutchings, Kevin (Kevin Douglas), 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The Politics and Poetics of Green Romanticism
  • 1. Naturalizing Colonial Relations in the British Atlantic World: Slavery as Fact and Figure
  • 2. Race and Animality in the British Atlantic World
  • 3. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion
  • 4. Enslaved Brutes and Brutalized Slaves: Animal Rights and Abolition in Coleridge and the Black Atlantic
  • 5. Environmental Determinism and the Politics of Nature: William Richardson's The Indians: A Tragedy
  • 6. Thomas Campbell's American Idyll: Colonial Ideology in Gertrude of Wyoming
  • 7. Romanticism, Colonialism, and the "Natural Man" in the Writings of Sir Francis Bond Head and George Copway
  • Afterword: Colonialism and Ecology.