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Autore |
Mallipeddi Ramesh |
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Titolo |
Spectacular suffering : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / / Ramesh Mallipeddi |
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Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - America - History - 18th century |
Sentimentalism - America - History - 18th century |
Suffering - America - History - 18th century |
Slavery in literature |
Sentimentalism in literature |
Suffering in literature |
English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
American literature - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - History and criticism |
Enslaved persons' writings, American - History and criticism |
Great Britain Colonies America History 18th century Sources |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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