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... " 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 9 123 8 Intimate Distance : African Women and Infant Death in.
Debbie Lee. 8 Intimate Distance : African Women and Infant Death in Wordsworth's Poetry and The History of Mary Prince Afterword 223 Notes 225 Selected Bibliography 263 Index 285 Acknowledgments 295 194 Illustrations 68 1. Detail , Thomas ...
... women forced into rooms that smelled of rape and men burned alive after fren2ied revolts have to do with Romantic writers ' long hours of peaceful reflection and protected moments of rural retreat ? Even when I thought of the Romantic ...
... women travel writers " initiated a counter - tradition of aesthetic thought " to combat the discourses of power so evident in patriarchy and empire . Srinivas Aravamudan , in a very different kind of study , coins the term ...
... women , to mistreated prisoners . Yet , ironi- cally , the sentimental movement , according to Lively , was devoted to refining the sensibilities of the white liberal middle class — a trend Lively sees in contempo- rary Britain and ...
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 |