Slavery and sentiment [electronic resource] : the politics of feeling in Black Atlantic antislavery writing, 1770-1850 / Christine Levecq.
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TextSeries: Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studiesPublication details: Durham : University of New Hampshire Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, c2008.Description: xii, 306 p. cmSubject(s): - American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Didactic fiction, American -- History and criticism
- Slavery in literature
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Antislavery movements in literature
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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- PS153.N5 L455 2008eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-291) and index.
Interiority, aesthetics, and antislavery sentiment -- Trade, sailors, national agency, and world citizenship -- Brotherhood, radicalism, and antislavery -- Blood, bodies, and the antebellum slave narrative -- The case of Frederick Douglass -- Epilogue : transnationalism and Black studies.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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