ISBN:
0813938430
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9780813938431
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mallipeddi, Ramesh Spectacular Suffering : Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
DDC:
306.3/62097309033
Keywords:
Sentimentalism Sources History 18th century
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Suffering Sources History 18th century
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Slavery in literature
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Sentimentalism in literature
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Suffering in literature
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English literature History and criticism 18th century
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American literature History and criticism Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
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Slaves' writings, American History and criticism
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Slavery Sources History 18th century
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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LITERARY CRITICISM ; European ; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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American literature ; Colonial period
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British colonies
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English literature
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Sentimentalism
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Sentimentalism in literature
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Slavery
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Slavery in literature
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Slaves' writings, American
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Suffering
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Suffering in literature
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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History
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Sources
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Great Britain Sources Colonies 18th century
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History
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America
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Quelle
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
"An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a measure of autonomy even under the conditions of slavery"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
Introduction: Sentimentalism, capitalist modernity, colonial slavery -- Spectacle, spectatorship, sympathy : Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the English commercial empire -- Yarico's complaint : the female slave in the eighteenth-century public sphere -- English subjects, African slaves : Laurence Sterne and the politics of punishment -- Reforming labor discipline : slave culture and sentimental fiction -- "A fixed melancholy" : memories of migration in Atlantic slavery -- Filiation to affiliation : kinship and sentiment in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Epilogue: The problem of slavery, the problem of freedom.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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