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... John Keats , Keats : The Complete Poems , ed . John Barnard ( Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1973 ) . Mary Prince , The History of Mary Prince , a West Indian Slave , Written by Herself , ed . Moira Ferguson ( Ann Arbor : University of ...
... John Keats , The Letters of John Keats , 1814-21 , ed . Hyder E. Rollins , 2 vols . ( Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 1958 ) . Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Lectures 1795 , on Politics and Religion , ed . Lewis Patton and ...
... , it is not itself — it has no self . -John Keats The only absolute value is the human possibility of giving the other priority over oneself . -Emmanuel Levinas Introduction I I have always been fascinated by the idea.
... John Barrell's 1991 book The Infections of Thomas De- Quincey : A Psychopathology of Imperialism is probably the most potent source of British anxiety in response to colonization , it was Nigel Leask who popularized the idea in his 1992 ...
... John Woolman , whose essay Some Considerations on the Keep- ing of Negroes appeared in 1746 , traveled around America as an itinerant minister speaking against slaveholding . Along with those of the American abolitionist and fellow ...
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 |