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

• Autore: Levecq Christine
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : University of New Hampshire Press; Hanover, : University Press of New England, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/896073009034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Slavery and sentiment
• ISBN: 1-282-47285-2; 9786612472855; 1-58465-813-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780510003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies