Ancient Slavery and Abolition

From Hobbes to Hollywood
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-957467-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 869 g

A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century. Thirteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from three continents, led by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway University of London, ask how both critics and defenders of slavery in media ranging from parliamentary speeches to poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema have summoned the ghosts of the ancient Spartans, Homer, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Pliny, Spartacus, and Prometheus to support their arguments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McConnell, Justine

Hall, Edith

Alston, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Edith Hall: Introduction: 'A Valuable Lesson'

- 2: Richard Alston: The Good Master: Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom

- 3: Stephen Hodkinson and Edith Hall: Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Antislavery Debates of the 1790s

- 4: John Hilton: The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834)

- 5: Brycchan Carey: A Stronger Muse: Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry

- 6: Emily Greenwood: The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley

- 7: Leanne Hunnings: Between Victimhood and Agency: Nydia the Slave in Bulwer's `The Last Days of Pompeii'

- 8: Edith Hall: The Problem with Prometheus: Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism

- 9: S. Sara Monoson: Recollecting Aristotle: Proslavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I

- 10: Margaret Malamud: The Auctoritas of Antiquity: Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA

- 11: David Lupher and Elizabeth Vandiver: Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra: Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition

- 12: Lydia Langerwerf: Universal Slave Revolts: C.L.R. James' use of Classical Literature in `The Black Jacobins'

- 13: Justine McConnell: Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South: Odyssean Slavery in `Sommersby'

- Postscript: Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Richard Alston, Professor of Roman History, Royal Holloway University of London, Edith Hall, Research Professor, Royal Holloway University of London, and Justine McConnell, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Northwestern University

Contributors:
Richard Alston, Royal Holloway, University of London
Brycchan Carey, Kingston University
Emily Greenwood, Yale University
Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
John Hilton, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
Stephen Hodkinson, University of Nottingham
Leanne Hunnings, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ahuvia Kahane, Royal Holloway, University of London
Lydia Langerwerf, University of Nottingham
David Lupher, University of Puget Sound
Justine McConnell, Northwestern University
Margaret Malamud, New Mexico State University
S. Sara Monoson, Northwestern University
Elizabeth Vandiver, Whitman College