Spectacular suffering : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic /

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"An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a mea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mallipeddi, Ramesh (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
Temas:
1600-1799
Slavery > America > History > 18th century > Sources.
Sentimentalism > America > History > 18th century > Sources.
Suffering > America > History > 18th century > Sources.
Slavery in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Suffering in literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
Enslaved persons' writings, American > History and criticism.
Sentimentalisme > Amérique > Histoire > 18e siècle > Sources.
Souffrance > Amérique > Histoire > 18e siècle > Sources.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Souffrance dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Écrits d'esclaves américains > Histoire et critique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature > Colonial period.
British colonies.
English literature.
Sentimentalism.
Slavery.
Enslaved persons' writings, American.
Suffering.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > 18th century > Sources.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Amérique > Histoire > 18e siècle > Sources.
America.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Sentimentalism, capitalist modernity, colonial slavery
  • Spectacle, spectatorship, sympathy : Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the English commercial empire
  • Yarico's complaint : the female slave in the eighteenth-century public sphere
  • English subjects, African slaves : Laurence Sterne and the politics of punishment
  • Reforming labor discipline : slave culture and sentimental fiction
  • "A fixed melancholy" : memories of migration in Atlantic slavery
  • Filiation to affiliation : kinship and sentiment in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative
  • Epilogue: The problem of slavery, the problem of freedom.

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