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... Interiors : African Cartography , Nile Poetry , and Percy Bysshe Shelley's " 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 ...
... interiors that presented the most challenging sites for exploration . But those explorers who went in their country's name , and in the name of discovery , also knew that the lands they de- scribed would soon become zoned for commercial ...
... Interior Parts of Africa - or the African As- sociation , as it was called - came into being in 1788 owing to the inspiration of Sir Joseph Banks.38 A round , heavy figure , with darkly defined eyebrows , a dimpled chin , and sturdy ...
... interior countries of Africa ; and appearing to the Committee to be well qualified for the Undertaking , his offer be accepted . " 47 Even as he signed the commission , Park knew that almost every other European who had been sent to ...
... Interior of Africa into which it is easy for every nation to enter and to extend its Commerce and Discovery from the West to the Eastern side of that im- mense Continent . " If Britain did not " possess " itself of the " Treasures " of ...
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 |