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... poets and fiction writers talking about cre- ative activity . Not surprisingly , among present - day poets , the Romantic ... poet has " no self . " This book , then , is an attempt to account for empathy in the Romantics ' theory of ...
... poets were well aware of , is that plantation slavery turned people into chattels , and this led to the interpretation in Western culture of slavery as the polar opposite of freedom . Transatlantic slavery gave European culture its ...
... poets . They were the subject of a play called " Mungo's Address , " a song by the duchess of Devonshire called " A Negro Song from Park's Travels " and a poem by Felicia Hemans . James Montgomery quoted Park in his popular abolitionist ...
... and climate , of language and manners , of laws and cus- toms : in spite of things gone silently out of mind , and things violently destroyed ; the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire 26 Chapter 1.
... poet Michael Ryan observes that " by imagining the audience to be permanent and universal instead of immediate and particular , [ Wordsworth ] awards the poet a larger , lasting , more important role in ' the vast empire of human ...
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 |