03125oam 2200661I 450 991015499220332120240505162430.01-138-27663-41-315-26324-610.4324/9781315263243 (CKB)3710000000965562(MiAaPQ)EBC4758709(OCoLC)965542304(BIP)57468222(BIP)41453030(EXLCZ)99371000000096556220180706e20162013 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAffect and abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830 /edited by Stephen Ahern1st ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (236 pages)First published 2013 by Ashgate Publishing.1-4094-5561-0 1-351-96047-4 pt. 1. Sympathy's empire -- pt. 2. Nation, narration, emancipation -- pt. 3. Spectacles of suffering -- pt. 4. Sentimental bondage.At the turn of the nineteenth century, writers arguing for the abolition of the slave trade and the emancipation of those in bondage used the language of sentiment and the political ideals of the Enlightenment to make their case. This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it grappled with the material realities of transatlantic slavery. Are the politics of sentimental representation progressive or conservative? What dynamics are in play at the site of suffering? What is the relationship of the spectator to the spectacle of the body in pain? The contributors take up these and related questions in essays that examine poetry, plays, petitions, treatises and life-writing that engaged with contemporary debates about abolition.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSlavery in literatureSentimentalism in literatureAffect (Psychology) in literatureEnglish language18th centuryRhetoricEnglish language19th centuryRhetoricAntislavery movementsGreat BritainHistoryAntislavery movementsUnited StatesHistoryEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.English literatureHistory and criticism.Slavery in literature.Sentimentalism in literature.Affect (Psychology) in literature.English languageRhetoric.English languageRhetoric.Antislavery movementsHistory.Antislavery movementsHistory.820.9/355Ahern Stephen983050MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154992203321Affect and abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-18302243635UNINA