Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination

In the eighteenth century, literary representations of slavery encompassed a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Without eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding the manner in which slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere.

Sommario

Introduction, SrividhyaSwaminathan, Adam R.Beach; Part 1 Invocations of “Foreign” or Captive Enslavement; Chapter 1 The Good-Treatment Debate, Comparative Slave Studies, and the “Adventures” of T.S., Adam R.Beach; Chapter 2 Love’s Slave, AmyWitherbee; Chapter 3 Defoe’s Captain Singleton, SrividhyaSwaminathan; Part 2 Political Invocations of Slavery and Liberty; Chapter 4, JeffreyGalbraith; Chapter 5 Hannah More’s Slavery and James Thomson’s Liberty, Brett D.Wilson; Part 3 Invocations of Slavery in British Systems of Servitude; Chapter 6 “Servants Have the Worser Lives”, LauraMartin; Chapter 7 Indentured Servitude as Colonial America’s “Semi-Slavery Business” in Sally Gunning’s Bound, AnnCampbell; Chapter 8 Slavey, or the New Drudge, RoxannWheeler; Chapter 101 Review Essay, GeorgeBoulukos;

Info autore

Srividhya Swaminathan is Associate Professor of English at Long Island University, USA, and Adam R. Beach is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, USA.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Adam R Beach, Adam R. Beach, Beach Adam R., Srividhya Swaminathan, Srividhya Beach Swaminathan, Swaminathan Srividhya
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.10.2016
• EAN: 9781138249318
• ISBN: 978-1-138-24931-8
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Colonialism & imperialism, Communication Studies, Literary studies: general, Colonialism and imperialism