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... sense of the continuing global ambitions of Western capitalism . This raises the vexed question of the relationship between culture and imperial- ism and the complicity of English literature in the imperialist project .... Never ...
... sense of this frightening , gruesome , and ultimately depressing legacy in Romantic studies.10 Still , there is a small body of literature on the subject . The two earliest book - length studies appeared in 1942 : Eva Beatrice Dykes's ...
... sense , this book asks : what is the relationship between the artist and the most hideous crimes of his or her era ? In dealing with the Roman- tic period , the question has to be : what is the relationship between the nation's greatest ...
... sense that they were indifferent to how they treated others . Tommy draws attention to this distance with a subtle vengeance by bringing his case into the rhetorical arena of human rights . He insists on the right to food ( sugar to ...
... sense of British tyranny . A letter writer in the Morning Chronicle of 18 March 1783 who attended the case wrote , " The narrative seemed to make every one present shudder . " 10 It was this event , ac- cording to veteran historian ...
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 |