Slavery and the Romantic imagination /
Lee, Debbie.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-284) and index.
Pt. I. History and imagination -- British slavery and African exploration: the written legacy -- The distanced imagination -- pt. II. Hazards and horrors in the slave colonies -- Distant diseases: yellow fever in Coleridge's "The rime of the ancient mariner" -- Intimacy as imitation: monkeys in Blake's engravings for Stedman's Narrative -- pt. III. Fascination and fear in Africa -- African embraces: voodoo and possession in Keats's Lamia -- Mapping interiors: African cartography, Nile poetry, and Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The witch of Atlas" -- pt. IV. Facing slavery in Britain -- Proximity's monsters: ethnography and anti-slavery law in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- Intimate distance: African women and infant death in Wordsworth's poetry and The history of Mary Prince.
English literature
Slavery in literature.
Literature and society
Romanticism
Blacks in literature.