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... " The Witch of Atlas " Part IV : Facing Slavery in Britain 142 7 Proximity's Monsters : Ethnography and Anti - Slavery Law in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 171 9 123 8 Intimate Distance : African Women and Infant Death in.
... Frankenstein , or the Modern Prometheus ( The 1818 Text ) , ed . James Reiger ( New York : Bobbs - Merrill , 1974 ; Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1982 ) . William Wordsworth , The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth , ed . E ...
... Frankenstein . How , I wondered , would someone character- ize these works about imagination as being also works about slavery ? Fortunately , because other scholars were asking similar questions , a shared critical language began to ...
... Frankenstein to Bram Stoker's Dracula . But his focus is popular culture , not the Romantic imagination . The two other recent books on the subject of Romanticism and slavery are Helen Thomas's Romanti- cism and Slave Narratives ...
... Frankenstein , and Lyrical Ballads , which seem impossible to lay aside even after we have finished reading them , also deliver something larger : an inquiry into the nature of empathy . PART I History and Imagination 1 British Slavery ...
Contents
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Hazards and Horrors in the Slave Colonies | 45 |
Distant Diseases Yellow Fever in Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 47 |
Intimacy as Imitation Monkeys in Blakes Engravings for Stedmans Narrative | 66 |
Fascination and Fear in Africa | 121 |
African Embraces Voodoo and Possession in Keatss Lamia | 123 |
Mapping Interiors African Cartography Nile Poetry and Percy Bysshe Shelleys The Witch of Atlas | 142 |
Proximitys Monsters Ethnography and AntiSlavery Law in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein | 171 |
Intimate Distance African Women and Infant Death in Wordsworths Poetry and The History of Mary Prince | 194 |
Afterword | 223 |
Notes | 225 |
Selected Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 295 |
Facing Slavery in Britain | 169 |