Spectacular suffering : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / Ramesh Mallipeddi.
2016
E446 .M35 2016
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Title
Spectacular suffering : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / Ramesh Mallipeddi.
Author
Mallipeddi, Ramesh, author.
ISBN
9780813938424
9780813938431 (electronic book)
9780813938431 (electronic book)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations
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E446 .M35 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/62097309033
Summary
"An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a measure of autonomy even under the conditions of slavery"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Sentimentalism, capitalist modernity, colonial slavery
Spectacle, spectatorship, sympathy : Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the English commercial empire
Yarico's complaint : the female slave in the eighteenth-century public sphere
English subjects, African slaves : Laurence Sterne and the politics of punishment
Reforming labor discipline : slave culture and sentimental fiction
"A fixed melancholy" : memories of migration in Atlantic slavery
Filiation to affiliation : kinship and sentiment in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative
Epilogue: The problem of slavery, the problem of freedom.
Spectacle, spectatorship, sympathy : Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the English commercial empire
Yarico's complaint : the female slave in the eighteenth-century public sphere
English subjects, African slaves : Laurence Sterne and the politics of punishment
Reforming labor discipline : slave culture and sentimental fiction
"A fixed melancholy" : memories of migration in Atlantic slavery
Filiation to affiliation : kinship and sentiment in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative
Epilogue: The problem of slavery, the problem of freedom.