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Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination: British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century

Autor Srividhya Swaminathan, Adam R. Beach
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 oct 2016
In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World, the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the power of association.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138249318
ISBN-10: 1138249319
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Srividhya Swaminathan is Associate Professor of English at Long Island University, USA, and Adam R. Beach is Associate Professor of English at Ball State University, USA.

Recenzii

A Baker & Taylor Academic Essentials Title in Area/Ethnic Studies: Black Studies outside the U.S.

Cuprins

Introduction, SrividhyaSwaminathan, Adam R.Beach; Part 1 Invocations of “Foreign” or Captive Enslavement; Chapter 1 The Good-Treatment Debate, Comparative Slave Studies, and the “Adventures” of T.S., Adam R.Beach; Chapter 2 Love’s Slave, AmyWitherbee; Chapter 3 Defoe’s Captain Singleton, SrividhyaSwaminathan; Part 2 Political Invocations of Slavery and Liberty; Chapter 4, JeffreyGalbraith; Chapter 5 Hannah More’s Slavery and James Thomson’s Liberty, Brett D.Wilson; Part 3 Invocations of Slavery in British Systems of Servitude; Chapter 6 “Servants Have the Worser Lives”, LauraMartin; Chapter 7 Indentured Servitude as Colonial America’s “Semi-Slavery Business” in Sally Gunning’s Bound, AnnCampbell; Chapter 8 Slavey, or the New Drudge, RoxannWheeler; Chapter 101 Review Essay, GeorgeBoulukos;

Descriere

In the eighteenth century, literary representations of slavery encompassed a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Without eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding the manner in which slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere.