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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Mallipeddi, Ramesh (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Suffering in literature.
Suffering.
Slaves' writings, American.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sentimentalism.
English literature.
British colonies.
American literature > Colonial period.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Écrits d'esclaves americains > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Souffrance dans la litterature.
Esclavage dans la litterature.
Souffrance > Amerique > Histoire > 18e siecle > Sources.
Sentimentalisme > Amerique > Histoire > 18e siecle > Sources.
Slaves' writings, American > History and criticism.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Suffering > America > History > 18th century > Sources.
Sentimentalism > America > History > 18th century > Sources.
Slavery > America > History > 18th century > Sources.
America.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Amerique > Histoire > 18e siecle > Sources.
Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > 18th century > Sources.
Sources.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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