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... century - History and criticism . 2. Slavery in literature . 3. Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 19th century . 4. Romanticism - Great Britain . 5. Africa - In literature . 6. Blacks in literature . I. Title . PR468 ...
... century British writers had to the growing empire . These responses seem to fall into one of the following categories : complicity , resistance , or anxiety . Felicity Nussbaum's 1995 book Torrid Zones , for instance , tries to make ...
... century colonialism is a thing of the past , " they write , " imperialism is often said to persist in the sense of ... centuries in Brit- ain , I began to wonder if there was yet another way to view the relationship be- tween literature ...
... century literary criticism , there is no attempt to explain underlying theoretical similarities or differences between the Romantic and abolitionist movements . More than fifty years passed before Joan Baum published Mind Forg'd ...
... century white middle - class Britons with all we now know about the effects of this history ? How can we do anything but submit to a rhetoric of blame or , at the very least , a cautious examination of the possible ruptures in these ...
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 |