Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons - Romanticism''s Black Geographies

"Centring Black experience and bringing together scholarship in Romanticism, Black studies, and environmental humanities, this study follows the political thought of Robert Wedderburn, using his stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to launch innovative readings of Romantic-era abolition, landscape, and revolution"--

List of contents

Introduction: Robert Wedderburn, romanticism, and black geographies; 1. Against private property: Wedderburn's the axe laid to the root; 2. From plantation to prison: Wedderburn's the horrors of slavery and London's radical press; 3. Black women's abolitionist geographies in the horrors of slavery and the history of Mary prince; 4. Provisions and pigs: black geographies in Matthew Lewis's journal of a west India proprietor; 5. Maroon settlements as abolitionist commons: nanny of the maroons, R. C. Dallas's history of the maroons, and J. G. Stedman's narrative of a five years' expedition; 6. Emancipation as the enclosure of 'waste fertility': Thomas Carlyle's rage against pumpkins; Conclusion / Wedderburn's last word: abolition with pigs, pumpkins, and yams; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Katey Castellano is Professor of English at James Madison University and author of The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism (2013).

Summary

Centring Black experience and bringing together scholarship in Romanticism, Black studies, and environmental humanities, this study follows the political thought of Robert Wedderburn, using his stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to launch innovative readings of Romantic-era abolition, landscape, and revolution.

Foreword

Employs Wedderburn's stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to boldly reassess Romantic-era writing across multiple genres.

Product details

• Authors: Katey Castellano, Katey (James Madison University Castellano, Castellano Katey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009523905
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0952390-5
• No. of pages: 233
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Africa, c 1800 to c 1900, Caribbean islands, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, C 1700 To C 1800, Slavery and abolition of slavery