British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility
Writing, Sentiment and Slavery, 1760-1807
Authors: Carey, B.
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- About this book
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British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect in the most important political and humanitarian battle of the time. Examining both familiar and unfamiliar texts, including poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that salve-owners and abolitionists alike made strategic use of the rhetoric of sensibility in the hope of influencing a reading public thoroughly immersed in the 'cult of feeling'.
- About the authors
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BRYCCHAN CAREY is Senior Lecturer in English at Kingston University in London. He has co-edited Discourses of Slavery and Abolition and Abolition: Britain and its Colonies, 1760-1838, and has published widely in the academic press, including articles on William Wilberforce, Ignatius Sancho, John Wesley, The Spectator, and the politics of Harry Potter.
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' British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility is a timely intervention in the scholarly study of the abolitionist movement. It consider, and suggests answers to, the criticisms some feminist and postcolonial scholars have levelled against eighteenth-century abolitionist writings...it offers a largely convincing reading of an important, little-understood area of eighteenth-century discourse.' - Anthony John Harding, Romanticism
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-17
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The Rhetoric of Sensibility
Pages 18-45
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Arguing in Prose: Abolitionist Letters and Novels
Pages 46-72
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Arguing in Verse: Abolitionist Poetry
Pages 73-106
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‘Read This, and Blush’: The Pamphlet War of the 1780s
Pages 107-143
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility
- Book Subtitle
- Writing, Sentiment and Slavery, 1760-1807
- Authors
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- B. Carey
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
- Copyright
- 2005
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-50162-1
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230501621
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4039-4626-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-52349-8
- Series ISSN
- 2634-6516
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 240
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