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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825641803321

Autore

Levecq Christine

Titolo

Slavery and sentiment [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of feeling in Black Atlantic antislavery writing, 1770-1850 / / Christine Levecq

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : University of New Hampshire Press

Hanover, : University Press of New England, c2008

ISBN

1-282-47285-2

9786612472855

1-58465-813-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies

Disciplina

810.9/896073009034

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Didactic fiction, American - History and criticism

Slavery in literature

African Americans - Intellectual life - 19th century

Literature and society - United States - History - 19th century

Antislavery movements in literature

Antislavery movements - United States - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-291) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Interiority, aesthetics, and antislavery sentiment -- Trade, sailors, national agency, and world citizenship -- Brotherhood, radicalism, and antislavery -- Blood, bodies, and the antebellum slave narrative -- The case of Frederick Douglass -- Epilogue : transnationalism and Black studies.

Sommario/riassunto

Illuminates the political dimensions of American and British antislavery texts written by blacks