Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation

Writings in the British Romantic Period
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-1-85196-513-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 3664 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 6259 g

Most writers associated with the first generation of British Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning slavery and the status of the slave.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kitson, Peter J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction -- Bibliography -- Note on copy texts -- Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions o f Tristram Shandy (1760-7) -- Henry Mackenzie, Julia de Roubigni (1777) -- Dorothy Kilner, The Rotchfords (1786) -- Anonymous, Adventures o f Jonathan Corncob (1787) -- Thomas Day, The History o f Sandford and Merton (1789) -- Robert Bage, Man As He Is (1792) -- Elizabeth Helme, The Farmer o f Inglewood Forest (1796) -- Cheap Repository Tracts, The Black Prince (1799) -- Hector MacNeill, Memoirs o f the Life and Travels o f the Late Charles Macpherson (1800) -- William Earle, Obi, or the History o f Three-Fingered Jack (1800) -- Maria Edgeworth, T h e Grateful Negro' from Popular Tales (1804) -- Mary Sherwood, Dazee, or the Recaptured Slave (1821) -- Notes.

Über Autor(innen)

Srinivas Aravamudan, Peter J. Kitson (Series Editor)