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Imagining Transatlantic Slavery / edited by C. Kaplan, J. Oldfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Race.
- Social history.
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- America--Literatures.
- America.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Social History.
- Cultural History.
- North American Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Race and Ethnicity Studies.
- Social History.
- Cultural History.
- North American Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (222 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Cultures of abolition. Inventing a culture of anti-slavery: Pennsylvanian Quakers and the Germantown Protest of 1688 / Brycchan Carey
- (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: the case of Benjamin Flower and the Cambridge Intelligencer / John Oldfield
- 'Another Ida May': photography and the American abolition campaign / Jessie Morgan-Owens
- Exchanging fugitive identity: William and Ellen Craft's transatlantic reinvention (1850-69) / HollyGale Millette
- pt. 2. Imaging transatlantic slavery. Equiano's paradise lost: the limits of allusion in chapter five of The Interesting Narrative / Vincent Carretta
- Phillis Wheatley's abolitionist text: the 1834 edition / Eileen Razzari Elrod
- Women and abolitionism: Hannah More's and Ann Yearsley's poetry and freedom / Lilla Maria Crisafulli
- pt. 3. Remembering and forgetting. Representing slavery in British museums: The challenges of 2007 / Douglas Hamilton
- Coram boy: slavery, theatricality and sentimentality on the British stage / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
- Significant silence: where was slave agency in the popular imagery of 2007? / Marcus Wood
- Afterword: Britain 2007, problematising histories / Catherine Hall.
- Notes:
- Papers originally presented at a conference.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612870163
- 9781282870161
- 1282870165
- 9780230277106
- 0230277101
- OCLC:
- 649385738
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