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... body of literature on the subject . The two earliest book - length studies appeared in 1942 : Eva Beatrice Dykes's The Negro in English Romantic Thought and Wylie Sypher's Guinea's Captive Kings . 1 1 Both of these works comprehensively ...
... body showed only a few faded marks . The fiscal questioned Tommy on this inconsistency , and he explained that " be had been favoured by the drivers , who threw the whips over him , " therefore completely missing his body with the whip ...
... bodies are imagined in the genre of an architectural drawing and cross section says something about the hideous underside of British seafaring . What is most surprising about the drawing , however , is the amount of detail the bodies ...
... body and his soul ! ( 47-53 ) Romantic writing operates within the context of slavery , certainly , but what is the relationship between slavery and freedom in the poetry ? On one level , Romantic works celebrate a kind of personal ...
... body , and become in some measure the same person with him . " " Smith makes the enlargement of the imagination not a self- ish but a selfless faculty . One expands the ego boundaries of the self in order to feel for the other . Shelley ...
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 |