Table of Contents: Affect and abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830 /

Other Authors:	Ahern, Stephen,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, Surrey, England : Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Limited ; Ashgate Publishing Company, [2013]
Subjects:	English literature > History and criticism. > 18th century English literature > History and criticism. > 19th century Slavery in literature. Sentimentalism in literature. Affect (Psychology) in literature. English language > Rhetoric. > 18th century English language > Rhetoric. > 19th century Antislavery movements > History. > Great Britain Antislavery movements > History. > United States

Table of Contents:

The bonds of sentiment / Stephen Ahern
Capitalism and slavery, once again with feeling / George Boulukos
Acts of sympathy : abolitionist poetry and transatlantic identification / Tobias Menely
Commerce, sentiment, and free air : contradictions of abolitionist rhetoric / Anthony John Harding
Sympathy, nerve physiology, and national degeneration in Anna Letitia Barbauld's Epistle to William Wilberforce / Mary Waters
To force a tear : British abolitionism and the eighteenth-century stage / Brycchan Carey
Pity for the poor Africans : William Cowper and the limits of abolitionist affect / Joanne Tong
We beg your excellency : the sentimental politics of abolitionist petitions in the late eighteenth century / Christine Levecq
The contradictions of racialized sensibility : gender, slavery and the limits of sympathy / Jamie Rosenthal
The cruelty of slavery, the cruelty of freedom : colonization and the politics of humaneness in the early republic / Margaret Abruzzo.