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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521662346
ISBN-139780521662345
eBay Product ID (ePID)1673646
Product Key Features
Number of Pages348 Pages
Publication NameRomanticism and Slave Narratives : Transatlantic Testimonies
LanguageEnglish
SubjectSlavery, American / African American, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorHelen Thomas
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
SeriesCambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight24.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-023186
Reviews'An important work that both illuminates and problematises the relationship between Romanticism and the slave narratives that often were read far more widely than the now canonical work of the Romantic poets.'BARS Bulletin, 'An important work that both illuminates and problematises the relationship between Romanticism and the slave narratives that often were read far more widely than the now canonical work of the Romantic poets.' BARS Bulletin, "A prodigious amount of reading and research in diverse and often original sources makes this book an important contribution to the burgeoning literature dealing with the slave trade and reactions to it in England and the US, above all by the slaves themselves. " Choice, "Romanticism and Slave Narratives addresses essential issues and raises important questions...The shores of the black Atlantic and the hillsides of the Lake District are closer together than we used to think." Journal of English and Germanic Philology, ‘An important work that both illuminates and problematises the relationship between Romanticism and the slave narratives that often were read far more widely than the now canonical work of the Romantic poets.’BARS Bulletin, "A valauble resource for those interested in African diaspoa literature...Provides a provocative historical and theoretical paradigm for future readings of Romantic texts..." Wordsworth Circle
Dewey Edition21
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 38
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal820.9358
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. The English slave trade and abolitionism; 2. Radical dissent and spiritual autobiography: Joanna Southcott, John Newton and William Cowper; 3. Romanticism and abolitionism: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth; 4. Cross-cultural contact: John Stedman, Thomas Jefferson and the slaves; 5. The diasporic identity: language and the paradigms of liberation; 6. The early slave narratives: Jupiter Hammon, John Marrant and Ottobah Gronniosaw; 7. Phyllis Wheatley: poems and letters; 8. Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative; 9. Robert Wedderburn and mulatto discourse.
SynopsisThe first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to the African diaspora, this study explores connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. Thomas reveals a dialogue between two diverse cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and expression., Helen Thomas' study opens a new avenue for Romanticism by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora, she investigates English literary Romanticism in the context of a transatlantic culture, and African culture in the context of eighteenth-century Britain. In so doing, she reveals an intertextual dialogue between two diverse yet equally rich cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and expression., Helen Thomas's study opens a new avenue for Romantic literary studies by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to the writings of the African diaspora, she investigates English literary Romanticism in the context of a transatlantic culture, and African culture in the context of eighteenth-century Britain. In so doing, the book reveals an intertextual dialogue between two diverse yet equally rich cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and expression. Showing how marginalised slaves and alienated radical dissenters contributed to transatlantic debates over civil and religious liberties, Helen Thomas remaps Romantic literature on this broader canvas of cultural exchanges, geographical migrations and identity-transformation, in the years before and after the abolition of the slave trade.
LC Classification NumberPR448.S55 T48 2000
