| Description |
xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / Isobel Armstrong -- Introduction / Carl Plasa and Betty J. Ring -- 1. Looks That Kill: Violence and representation in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / Anne Fogarty -- 2. Sex, Slavery and Rights in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindications / Jane Moore -- 3. "That Mild Beam": Enlightenment and enslavement in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion / Steven Vine -- 4. "Silent Revolt": Slavery and the politics of metaphor in Jane Eyre / Carl Plasa -- 5. Anglo-American Connections: Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Beecher Stowe and the "Iron of slavery" / Elizabeth Jean Sabiston -- 6. "Painting by Numbers": Figuring Frederick Douglass / Betty J. Ring -- 7. Perilous Passages in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Jon Hauss -- 8. The Irony of Idealism: William Faulkner and the South's construction of the mulatto / David Lawrence Rogers -- 9. Prophesying Bodies: Calling for a politics of collectivity in Toni Morrison's Beloved / April Lidinsky |
| Analysis |
English literature Special subjects Slavery |
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Great Britain |
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United States |
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English literature Special subjects Slavery |
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Great Britain |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery -- English-speaking countries -- Public opinion.
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| Author |
Plasa, Carl, 1959-
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Ring, Betty J. (Betty Joan), 1966-
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| LC no. |
93027522 |
| ISBN |
0415081513 |
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0415081521 (paperback) |
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