Slavery and sentiment
Subtitle: the politics of feeling in Black Atlantic antislavery writing, 1770-1850
By: Christine Levecq.
Series: Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies
Publisher: University of New Hampshire Press; University Press of New England
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham; Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781584657347
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Interiority, aesthetics, and antislavery sentiment; title: Trade, sailors, national agency, and world citizenship; title: Brotherhood, radicalism, and antislavery; title: Blood, bodies, and the antebellum slave narrative; title: The case of Frederick Douglass; title: Epilogue : transnationalism and Black studies.