Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Mallipeddi, Ramesh, author.

Title Spectacular suffering : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / Ramesh Mallipeddi
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2016]
©2016

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 21, 2016)
Print version record
Subject Slavery -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
Sentimentalism -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
Suffering -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
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
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature -- Colonial period
British colonies
English literature
Sentimentalism
Sentimentalism in literature
Slavery
Slavery in literature
Enslaved persons' writings, American
Suffering
Suffering in literature
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- 18th century -- Sources
Subject America
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813938431
0813938430