Helen Thomas' study opens a new avenue for Romanticism by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora, she investigates English literary Romanticism in the context of a transatlantic culture, and African culture in the context of eighteenth-century Britain. In so doing, she reveals an intertextual dialogue between two diverse yet equally rich cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and expression.
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"A valauble resource for those interested in African diaspoa literature...Provides a provocative historical and theoretical paradigm for future readings of Romantic texts..." Wordsworth Circle
"A prodigious amount of reading and research in diverse and often original sources makes this book an important contribution to the burgeoning literature dealing with the slave trade and reactions to it in England and the US, above all by the slaves themselves. " Choice
"Romanticism and Slave Narratives addresses essential issues and raises important questions...The shores of the black Atlantic and the hillsides of the Lake District are closer together than we used to think." Journal of English and Germanic Philology
"A prodigious amount of reading and research in diverse and often original sources makes this book an important contribution to the burgeoning literature dealing with the slave trade and reactions to it in England and the US, above all by the slaves themselves. " Choice
"Romanticism and Slave Narratives addresses essential issues and raises important questions...The shores of the black Atlantic and the hillsides of the Lake District are closer together than we used to think." Journal of English and Germanic Philology
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Helen Thomas's study opens a new avenue for Romanticism by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora, she investigates English literary Romanticism in the context of a transatlantic culture, and African culture in the context of eighteenth-century Britain. In so doing, the book reveals an intertextual dialogue between two diverse yet equally rich cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and expression.
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Although it would be a further one hundred years before England had successfully wrested the body of the slave trade from Spain and Portugal, and a further seventy years before it succeeded in dominating the European slave market, John Hawkins' voyage from England to Africa in 1562 marked England's entrance onto the world market of transatlantic slavery and its subsequent ascendance as a global power supported by colonial expansion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
slave ideology, abolitionist ideology, liberationist ideology, spiritual discourse, cultural miscegenation, missionary ideology, abolitionist discourse, cultural dispossession, diasporic identity, conversation poems, slave narrators, colonial expansionism, racial intermixture, slave narratives, black diaspora Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sierra Leone, West Indies, New York, Great Britain, Slane Trade, John Wesley, Phillis Wheatley, Clarendon Press, Joanna Southcott, Thomas Clarkson, William Blake, New England, Oxford University Press, West African, West Indian, William Cowper, Wordsworth's Prelude, George Whitefield, Authentic Narrative, Cambridge University Press, Granville Sharp, Olaudah Equiano, Jesus Christ, Robert Southey, Dorothy Wordsworth New!
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Although it would be a further one hundred years before England had successfully wrested the body of the slave trade from Spain and Portugal, and a further seventy years before it succeeded in dominating the European slave market, John Hawkins' voyage from England to Africa in 1562 marked England's entrance onto the world market of transatlantic slavery and its subsequent ascendance as a global power supported by colonial expansion. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
slave ideology, abolitionist ideology, liberationist ideology, spiritual discourse, cultural miscegenation, missionary ideology, abolitionist discourse, cultural dispossession, diasporic identity, conversation poems, slave narrators, colonial expansionism, racial intermixture, slave narratives, black diaspora Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sierra Leone, West Indies, New York, Great Britain, Slane Trade, John Wesley, Phillis Wheatley, Clarendon Press, Joanna Southcott, Thomas Clarkson, William Blake, New England, Oxford University Press, West African, West Indian, William Cowper, Wordsworth's Prelude, George Whitefield, Authentic Narrative, Cambridge University Press, Granville Sharp, Olaudah Equiano, Jesus Christ, Robert Southey, Dorothy Wordsworth New!
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- Religion, Exploration and Slavery by * on page 174, page 208, and page 209
- Slavery and the Romantic Imagination by Debbie Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the (18th) Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World by Philip Gould in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment by David Scott in Back Matter
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