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Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

Autor Marcus Wood
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 noi 2002
Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of English 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. He takes on the works of canonic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century white authors which claimed, when written, to 'account' for slavery, and asks with some scepticism what kind of 'truth' they hold.Taking an interdisciplinary approach, chapters focus on the writings of the major Romantic poets, English Radicals William Cobbett and John Thelwall, the Surinam writings of John Stedman, the full range of slavery texts generated by Harriet Martineau, John Newton, and the social prophets Carlyle and Ruskin. Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography also contains a radical new critique of the operations of slavery within the work of Austen and Charlotte Brontë.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198187202
ISBN-10: 0198187203
Pagini: 480
Ilustrații: numerous halftones
Dimensiuni: 163 x 242 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.96 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Wood manages to discuss an impressive and disparate range of 'white texts about slavery' while maintaining a sense of thematic continuity for much of the book.
[Wood] succeeds in raising some important questions about the relativising dangers of postmodern bricolage in the composition of historical fiction.
... a discomforting and provocative study ... Wood's ambition to shock and unsettle his reader provides Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography with many of its most distinctive strengths.