Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography
ISBN13: 9780198187202ISBN10: 0198187203
Hardback,
480 pages
Jan 2003,
In Stock
Price:
$99.00 (06)
Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2004
Description
This study considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of England from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Marcus Wood writes from the conviction that slavery was, and still is, a dilemma for everyone in England, and seeks to explain why English society has constructed Atlantic slavery in the way it has.Features
- An exciting and important study of the effects of the transatlantic slave trade on English thought and culture
- Looks at a wide range of writing, from high art to utilitarian writing, and adopts an interdisciplinary approach
