Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ahern, Stephen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of those in bondage used the language of sentiment and the political ideals of the Enlightenment to make their case. This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it grappled with the material realities of transatlantic slavery. Are the politics of sentimental representation progressive or conservative? What dynamics are in play at the site of suffering? What is the relationship of the spectator to the spectacle of the body in pain? The contributors take up these and related questions in essays that examine poetry, plays, petitions, treatises and life-writing that engaged with contemporary debates about abolition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351960472
• Artikelnr.: 49356006

Autorenporträt

Stephen Ahern is Associate Professor of English at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: The bonds of sentiment
Stephen Ahern; Part 1 Sympathy's Empire: Capitalism and slavery
once again with feeling
George Boulukos; Acts of sympathy: abolitionist poetry and transatlantic identification
Tobias Menely. Part 2 Nation
Narration
Emancipation: Commerce
sentiment
and free air: contradictions of abolitionist rhetoric
Anthony John Harding; Sympathy
nerve physiology
and national degeneration in Anna Letitia Barbauld's Epistle to William Wilberforce
Mary A. Waters. Part 3 Spectacles of Suffering: To force a tear: British abolitionism and the 18th-century stage
Brycchan Carey; 'Pity for the poor Africans': William Cowper and the limits of abolitionist affect
Joanne Tong; 'We beg Your Excellency': the sentimental politics of abolitionist petitions in the late 18th century
Christine Levecq. Part 4 Sentimental Bondage: The contradictions of racialized sensibility: gender
slavery and the limits of sympathy
Jamie Rosenthal; The cruelty of slavery
the cruelty of freedom: colonization and the politics of humaneness in the early republic
Margaret Abruzzo; Selected bibliography; Index.