Spectacular suffering : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / / Ramesh Mallipeddi
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville : , : University of Virginia Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.3/62097309033 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Colonies America History 18th century Sources |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Spectacular suffering |
| ISBN: | 0-8139-3843-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817495003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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