| Description |
xii, 296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-284) and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. I. History and imagination -- British slavery and African exploration: the written legacy -- The distanced imagination -- pt. II. Hazards and horrors in the slave colonies -- Distant diseases: yellow fever in Coleridge's "The rime of the ancient mariner" -- Intimacy as imitation: monkeys in Blake's engravings for Stedman's Narrative -- pt. III. Fascination and fear in Africa -- African embraces: voodoo and possession in Keats's Lamia -- Mapping interiors: African cartography, Nile poetry, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The witch of Atlas" -- pt. IV. Facing slavery in Britain -- Proximity's monsters: ethnography and anti-slavery law in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Intimate distance: African women and infant death in Wordsworth's poetry and The history of Mary Prince. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Romanticism. |
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Africa -- In literature.
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Africa. |
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Black people in literature.
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Black people in literature. |
| ISBN |
081223636X cloth alkaline paper |
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