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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2014
      October 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139941617
      9781107079342
      9781107438163
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139941617
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.54kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.42kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1700-1830
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (108)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1700-1830
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Romanticism (108)
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    Geography played a key role in Britain's long national debate over slavery. Writers on both sides of the question represented the sites of slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and the British Isles - as fully imagined places and the basis for a pro- or anti-slavery political agenda. With the help of twenty-first-century theories of space and place, Elizabeth A. Bohls examines the writings of planters, slaves, soldiers, sailors, and travellers whose diverse geographical and social locations inflect their representations of slavery. She shows how these writers use discourses of aesthetics, natural history, cultural geography, and gendered domesticity to engage with the slavery debate. Six interlinked case studies, including Scottish mercenary John Stedman and domestic slave Mary Prince, examine the power of these discourses to represent the places of slavery, setting slaves' narratives in dialogue with pro-slavery texts, and highlighting in the latter previously unnoticed traces of the enslaved.

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    'Bohls’ wide-reaching analysis of multiple genres by a variety of authors convincingly makes the case that the politics of place played a crucial role in constructing the West Indian colonies in the British imagination … Bohls makes a valuable contribution by examining both sides of the debate, situating slavery within the project of empire, and showing how writers and artists from both camps made use of Romantic aesthetics to argue for or against slavery.'

    Lisa Ann Robertson - Journal of Romanticism

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