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... stories of which surrounded these writers . This study sets out to demonstrate , in detail , just how this is so . In some cases , the historical specificity of slavery is there in clear view , as in Coleridge's " Fears in Solitude ...
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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 |