Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation Vol 6

Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade

List of contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Note on copy texts -- Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions o f Tristram Shandy (1760-7) -- Henry Mackenzie, Julia de Roubigni (1777) -- Dorothy Kilner, The Rotchfords (1786) -- Anonymous, Adventures o f Jonathan Corncob (1787) -- Thomas Day, The History o f Sandford and Merton (1789) -- Robert Bage, Man As He Is (1792) -- Elizabeth Helme, The Farmer o f Inglewood Forest (1796) -- Cheap Repository Tracts, The Black Prince (1799) -- Hector MacNeill, Memoirs o f the Life and Travels o f the Late Charles Macpherson (1800) -- William Earle, Obi, or the History o f Three-Fingered Jack (1800) -- Maria Edgeworth, T h e Grateful Negro' from Popular Tales (1804) -- Mary Sherwood, Dazee, or the Recaptured Slave (1821) -- Notes.

Summary

Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade

Product details

• Authors: Peter J Kitson, Debbie Lee, Lee Debbie, Anne K Mellor, James Walvin
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.1999
• EAN: 9781138757424
• ISBN: 978-1-138-75742-4
• No. of pages: 422
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales, Literature & literary studies, FICTION / Fantasy / Romance, Biography, Literature and Literary studies