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... appear in parentheses by the following abbreviations : B CC Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Biographia Literaria , ed . John Shawcross , 2 vols . ( Oxford : Clarendon , 1902 ) . Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor ...
... appears with Patrick J. Keane's Cole- ridge's Submerged Politics in 1994.13 Taking his lead from arguments made famous in Romantic criticism by Jerome J. McGann and Marjorie Levinson , Keane ana- lyzes Coleridge's marginal notes to ...
... appear at all says something about the significant shift taking place during this period between African slaves and British masters . Among these complaints , the case of " Tommy " stands out.2 On 9 February 1819 , Tommy appeared before ...
... effort to keep slavery physically distant . In 1771 , nearly half a century before Tommy's complaint , the slave James Somerset was ordered to appear be- fore Judge Mansfield at the Court of King's Bench in 10 Chapter 1.
... appear with startling regularity . For instance , images of freedom and its British opposite , slavery , are mentioned throughout Blake's poetry , in lines like " the slave grinding at the mill / And the captive in chains , " from The ...
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 |