Slavery, empathy, and pornography / Marcus Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Marcus, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

English literature.

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

Slavery in literature.

Empathy in literature.

Pornography--Great Britain--History.

Pornography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 467 p. ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of English from the late-18th to the mid-19th centuries, incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of plates

Introduction

1. Slavery, testimony, propaganda : John Newton, william Cowper, and compulsive confession

2. Slavery, empathy, and pornography in John Gabriel Stedman's Narrative of a five years expedition against the revolted negroes of Surinam

3. William Cobbett, John Thelwall : radicalism, racism, and slavery

4. Slavery and romantic poetry

5. "Born to be a destroyer of slavery" : Harriet Martineau, fixing slavery and slavery as fix

6. Canons to the right of them, canons to the left of them : Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, and memorial subversions of slavery

7. The anatomy of bigotry : Carlyle, Ruskin, slavery, and a new language of race

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2002.

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

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-00975-9

1-280-44494-0

0-19-154193-1

1-4237-5748-3

OCLC:

64663729