03563nam 2200733 450 991081749500332120230323001839.00-8139-3843-0(CKB)3710000000617289(EBL)4454521(OCoLC)945198710(SSID)ssj0001649288(PQKBManifestationID)16422773(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001649288(PQKBWorkID)14975315(PQKB)10876004(MiAaPQ)EBC4454521(MdBmJHUP)muse51536(Au-PeEL)EBL4454521(CaPaEBR)ebr11175919(CaONFJC)MIL906889(EXLCZ)99371000000061728920160112d2016 ub| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSpectacular suffering witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic /Ramesh MallipeddiCharlottesville :University of Virginia Press,2016.1 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8139-3842-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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."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.SlaveryAmericaHistory18th centurySourcesSentimentalismAmericaHistory18th centurySourcesSufferingAmericaHistory18th centurySourcesSlavery in literatureSentimentalism in literatureSuffering in literatureEnglish literature18th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican literatureColonial period, ca. 1600-1775History and criticismEnslaved persons' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismGreat BritainColoniesAmericaHistory18th centurySourcesSlaveryHistorySentimentalismHistorySufferingHistorySlavery in literature.Sentimentalism in literature.Suffering in literature.English literatureHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Enslaved persons' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.306.3/62097309033Mallipeddi Ramesh1661685MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817495003321Spectacular suffering4017767UNINA