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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.
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.