Slavery, empathy, and pornography /

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of English from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wood, Marcus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series:OUP E-Books.
Subjects:
1700-1899
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Slavery > Great Britain > Public opinion > History.
Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History.
Pornography > Great Britain.
Empathy in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Pornographie > Grande-Bretagne.
Empathie dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Antislavery movements.
English literature.
Literature and society.
Pornography.
Slavery > Public opinion.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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 fix
  • 6. Canons to the right of them, canons to the left of them : Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, and memorial subversions of slavery
  • 7. The anatomy of bigotry : Carlyle, Ruskin, slavery, and a new language of race
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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