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Author Mallipeddi, Ramesh, author.

Title Spectacular suffering : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / Ramesh Mallipeddi.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
©2016

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Summary "An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a measure of autonomy even under the conditions of slavery"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Sentimentalism, capitalist modernity, colonial slavery -- Spectacle, spectatorship, sympathy : Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the English commercial empire -- Yarico's complaint : the female slave in the eighteenth-century public sphere -- English subjects, African slaves : Laurence Sterne and the politics of punishment -- Reforming labor discipline : slave culture and sentimental fiction -- "A fixed melancholy" : memories of migration in Atlantic slavery -- Filiation to affiliation : kinship and sentiment in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Epilogue: The problem of slavery, the problem of freedom.
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Subject Slavery -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
Slavery.
America.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Genre/Form Sources.
Subject Sentimentalism -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
Sentimentalism.
Suffering -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
Suffering.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Suffering in literature.
Suffering in literature.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.
Enslaved persons' writings, American -- History and criticism.
Enslaved persons' writings, American.
Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources.
Great Britain.
Colonies.
Chronological Term 1600-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Mallipeddi, Ramesh. Spectacular Suffering : Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, ©2016
ISBN 9780813938431 (electronic book)
0813938430 (electronic book)
9780813938424
0813938422