Affect and abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830 / edited by Stephen Ahern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahern, Stephen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

Slavery in literature.

Sentimentalism in literature.

Affect (Psychology) in literature.

English language--18th century--Rhetoric.

English language.

Rhetoric.

English language--19th century--Rhetoric.

Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History.

Antislavery movements.

Antislavery movements--United States--History.

History.

United States.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 225 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]

Contents:

The bonds of sentiment / Stephen Ahern

Capitalism and slavery, once again with feeling / George Boulukos

Acts of sympathy : abolitionist poetry and transatlantic identification / Tobias Menely

Commerce, sentiment, and free air : contradictions of abolitionist rhetoric / Anthony John Harding

Sympathy, nerve physiology, and national degeneration in Anna Letitia Barbauld's Epistle to William Wilberforce / Mary Waters

To force a tear : British abolitionism and the eighteenth-century stage / Brycchan Carey

Pity for the poor Africans : William Cowper and the limits of abolitionist affect / Joanne Tong

We beg your excellency : the sentimental politics of abolitionist petitions in the late eighteenth century / Christine Levecq

The contradictions of racialized sensibility : gender, slavery and the limits of sympathy / Jamie Rosenthal

The cruelty of slavery, the cruelty of freedom : colonization and the politics of humaneness in the early republic / Margaret Abruzzo.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781409455615

1409455610

OCLC:

826456639