Slavery, empathy, and pornography / Marcus Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Marcus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Slavery in literature.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Pornography.

Antislavery movements.

History.

Great Britain.

Literature and society--Great Britain--History--18th century.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Slavery--Great Britain--Public opinion--History.

Slavery.

Public opinion.

Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.

Pornography--Great Britain.

Empathy in literature.

Physical Description:

ix, 467 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This study considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of England from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Marcus Wood writes from the conviction that slavery was, and still is, a dilemma for everyone in England, and seeks to explain why English society has constructed Atlantic slavery in the way it has.

Contents:

1. Slavery, Testimony, Propaganda: John Newton, William Cowper, and Compulsive Confession 23

2. Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam 87

3. William Cobbett, John Thelwall: Radicalism, Racism, and Slavery 141

4. Slavery and Romantic Poetry 181

5. 'Born to be a destroyer of slavery': Harriet Martineau, Fixing Slavery and Slavery as a Fix 255

6. Canons to the Right of them, Canons to the Left of them: Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, and Memorial Subversions of Slavery 295

7. The Anatomy of Bigotry: Carlyle, Ruskin, Slavery, and a New Language of Race 346.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [428]-456) and index.

ISBN:

0198187203

OCLC:

50348119