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... Never- theless , writing of the Romantic period cannot simply be seen as univocal in sup- port of that domination : the contributors to this volume investigate some of the ways in which it articulates resistance to , and / or anxiety ...
... never explains precisely how " The Ancient Mariner " reenacts radical politics . In the same vein as Keane , but in a much more wide - ranging study , Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth - Century Britain ( 1996 J , H. L. Malchow traces ...
... never settled . Initially , it was set for a further trial where , by coincidence , Judge Mansfield , who had presided over the Somerset case , was set to hear it . However , if there was a second trial , it was never recorded . But the ...
... never subservient . At one of his particularly vulnerable moments , Park is told by the villagers of Bambarra that he must wait alone the entire night , without food or shelter , and an African woman " returning from the labours in the ...
... never met . This could give them either a sense of power or a feeling of despair . Rowland , ex- tending Klancher's idea , argues that Romantic writers ' activity " forced them to confront a general feeling of their epoch , sometimes ...
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 |