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- Description
- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Summary
- "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 measure of autonomy even under the conditions of slavery"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Spectacular Suffering (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Spectacular Suffering (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- 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.
- OCLC
- ssj0001649288
- Author
Mallipeddi, Ramesh.
- Title
Spectacular Suffering [electronic resource] : Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic / Ramesh Mallipeddi.
- Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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Project Muse.
- LCCN
2015036881