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Affect and abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830
- Title
- Affect and abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830 / edited by Stephen Ahern.
- Publication
- Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Ahern, Stephen
- Description
- viii, 225 pages; 24 cm
- Subject
- English literature > 18th century > History and criticism
- English literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- Sentimentalism in literature
- Affect (Psychology) in literature
- English language > 18th century > Rhetoric
- English language > 19th century > Rhetoric
- Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History
- Antislavery movements > United States > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.
- Contents
- The bonds of sentiment / Stephen Ahern -- Capitalism and slavery, once again with feeling / George Boulukos -- Acts of sympathy : abolitionist poetry and transatlantic identification / Tobias Menely -- 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 Waters -- To force a tear : British abolitionism and the eighteenth-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 eighteenth century / Christine Levecq -- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-1078
- ISBN
- 9781409455615
- 1409455610
- LCCN
- 2012046556
- 40022724062
- OCLC
- 826456639
- Title
- Affect and abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830 / edited by Stephen Ahern.
- Publisher
- Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218) and index.
- Added Author
- Ahern, Stephen, editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022724062
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-1078