Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

by Marcus Wood

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198187202
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/06/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	9.48(w) x 6.48(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

University of Sussex

Table of Contents

List of platesIntroduction1. Slavery, testimony, propaganda: John Newton, William Cowper, and compulsive confession2. Slavery, empathy, and pornography in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam3. William Cobbett, John Thelwall radicalism, racism, and slavery4. Slavery and Romantic poetry5. 'Born to be a destroyer of slavery': Harriet Martineau fixing slavery and slavery as a fix6. Canons to the right of them and canons to the left of them: Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, and memorial subversions of slavery7. The anatomy of bigotry: Carlyle, Ruskin slavery, and the new language of raceConclusionBibliography