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British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility

Author : B. Carey

Publisher : Springer

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 37,19 MB

Release : 2005-08-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0230501621

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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'.



From Peace to Freedom

Author : Brycchan Carey

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 49,54 MB

Release : 2012-11-27

Category : History

ISBN : 0300180772

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In the first book to investigate in detail the origins of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends, Brycchan Carey shows how the Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century and became the first organization to take a stand against the slave trade. Through meticulous examination of the earliest writings of the Friends, including journals and letters, Carey reveals the society’s gradual transition from expressing doubt about slavery to adamant opposition. He shows that while progression toward this stance was ongoing, it was slow and uneven and that it was vigorous internal debate and discussion that ultimately led to a call for abolition. His book will be a major contribution to the history of the rhetoric of antislavery and the development of antislavery thought as explicated in early Quaker writing.



Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830

Author : Stephen Ahern

Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 21,59 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9781409455615

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This collection investigates the rhetorical features and political complexities of the culture of sentimentality as it grappled with the material realities of transatlantic slavery at the turn of the nineteenth century. The contributors examine poetry, plays, petitions, treatises, and life-writing that engaged with contemporary debates about abolition.



Discourses of Slavery and Abolition

Author : B. Carey

Publisher : Springer

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 42,60 MB

Release : 2004-05-25

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0230522602

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Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual culture in the 'long' Eighteenth-century. The book begins by examining writing about slavery and race by both philosophers and by authors such as Aphra Behn. It considers self-representation in the works of Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, James Williams and Mary Prince. The final section reads literary and cultural texts associated with the abolition movements of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, moving beyond traditional accounts of the documents of that movement to show the importance of religious writing, children's literature and the relationship between art and abolition.



Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Author : Brycchan Carey

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 43,86 MB

Release : 2020-09-22

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 3030327922

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This book examines literary representations of birds from across the world in anage of expanding European colonialism. It offers important new perspectives intothe ways birds populate and generate cultural meaning in a variety of literary andnon-literary genres from 1700–1840 as well as throughout a broad range ofecosystems and bioregions. It considers a wide range of authors, including someof the most celebrated figures in eighteenth-century literature such as John Gay,Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Cowper, MaryWollstonecraft, Thomas Bewick, Charlotte Smith, William Wordsworth, andGilbert White. ignwogwog[p



Thoughts Upon Slavery

Author : John Wesley

Publisher :

Page : 32 pages

File Size : 48,41 MB

Release : 1774

Category : Slavery

ISBN :

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Quakers and Abolition

Author : Brycchan Carey

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 281 pages

File Size : 29,86 MB

Release : 2014-03-30

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0252096126

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This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890. Contributors from a range of disciplines, nations, and faith backgrounds show Quaker's beliefs to be far from monolithic. They often disagreed with one another and the larger antislavery movement about the morality of slaveholding and the best approach to abolition. Not surprisingly, contributors explain, this complicated and evolving antislavery sensibility left behind an equally complicated legacy. While Quaker antislavery was a powerful contemporary influence in both the United States and Europe, present-day scholars pay little substantive attention to the subject. This volume faithfully seeks to correct that oversight, offering accessible yet provocative new insights on a key chapter of religious, political, and cultural history. Contributors include Dee E. Andrews, Kristen Block, Brycchan Carey, Christopher Densmore, Andrew Diemer, J. William Frost, Thomas D. Hamm, Nancy A. Hewitt, Maurice Jackson, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, Gary B. Nash, Geoffrey Plank, Ellen M. Ross, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, James Emmett Ryan, and James Walvin.



Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807

Author : Justin Roberts

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 367 pages

File Size : 14,75 MB

Release : 2013-07-08

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1107025850

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This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. It examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines, and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done. This book argues that slave workloads were increasing in the eighteenth century and that slave owners were employing more rigorous labor discipline and supervision in ways that scholars now associate with the Industrial Revolution.



Mary Wollstonecraft in Context

Author : Nancy E. Johnson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : pages

File Size : 50,42 MB

Release : 2020-01-31

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1108266223

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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was one of the most influential and controversial women of her age. No writer, except perhaps her political foe, Edmund Burke, and her fellow reformer, Thomas Paine, inspired more intense reactions. In her brief literary career before her untimely death in 1797, Wollstonecraft achieved remarkable success in an unusually wide range of genres: from education tracts and political polemics, to novels and travel writing. Just as impressive as her expansive range was the profound evolution of her thinking in the decade when she flourished as an author. In this collection of essays, leading international scholars reveal the intricate biographical, critical, cultural, and historical context crucial for understanding Mary Wollstonecraft's oeuvre. Chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, French philosophes and English Dissenters, constitutional law and domestic law, sentimental literature, eighteenth-century periodicals and more elucidate Wollstonecraft's social and political thought, historical writings, moral tales for children, and novels.