Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770–1830
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Abolitionist Poems
Abolitionist Poetry
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African Slave Trade
Barbauld's Poem
Barbauld’s Poem
Benevolent Planters
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Creole Women
Eighteenth Century London Stage
Enlightenment political thought
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George Boulukos
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Grateful Slave
Guinea's Captive Kings
Guinea’s Captive Kings
Hartley's Ideas
Hartley's Theory
Hartley’s Ideas
Hartley’s Theory
Human Woe
Innate Racial Difference
Negro's Complaint
Negro’s Complaint
Prince Hall
Recipe Knowledge
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sentimental literature
Sentimental Rhetoric
sentimentalism in anti-slavery debates
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Srividhya Swaminathan
suffering representation
Sympathetic Appeal
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William Lisle
William Wilberforce
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Young Man
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- ISBN 9781409455615
- Weight: 566g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of those in bondage used the language of sentiment and the political ideals of the Enlightenment to make their case. This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it grappled with the material realities of transatlantic slavery. Are the politics of sentimental representation progressive or conservative? What dynamics are in play at the site of suffering? What is the relationship of the spectator to the spectacle of the body in pain? The contributors take up these and related questions in essays that examine poetry, plays, petitions, treatises and life-writing that engaged with contemporary debates about abolition.
Stephen Ahern is Associate Professor of English at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
