Thomas, Helen.
Romanticism and Slave Narratives : Transatlantic Testimonies. - 1 online resource (350 pages) - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; v.38 . - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism .
COVER -- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- TO HUGO, FELIX AND CLAUDE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE THE ENGLISH SLAVE TRADE AND ABOLITIONISM -- ABOLITION AND RADICAL DISSENTING PROTESTANTISM -- QUAKERS AND SHAKERS -- THE SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE -- JOHN WESLEY, METHODISM AND ABOLITION -- METAMORPHOSIS: THE DISCOURSE OF THE SPIRIT, MISSIONARY IDEOLOGY AND THE DYNAMICS OF EMPIRE -- CHAPTER TWO RADICAL DISSENT AND SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY JOANNA SOUTHCOTT, JOHN NEWTON AND WILLIAM COWPER -- JOANNA SOUTHCOTT AND THE EVOLUTION OF FEMINISED SPIRITUAL DISCOURSE -- JOHN NEWTON'S ENCOUNTERS -- SPIRITUAL AND OTHERWISE -- WILLIAM COWPER'S AMBIGUOUS DELIVERANCE -- POEMS OF LIBERTY AND DELUGE -- CHAPTER THREE ROMANTICISM AND ABOLITIONISM: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, WILLIAM BLAKE, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH -- COLERIDGE'S BITTER SWEET 'LECTURE ON THE SLAVE TRADE' -- COLERIDGE'S DISCOURSE OF THE SPIRIT: THE 'CONVERSATION POEMS' -- COLERIDGE'S 'LETTER TO SARA HUTCHINSON' -- WORDSWORTH'S SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- WORDSWORTH AND THE SLAVES -- WILLIAM BLAKE: SPIRITUALISM AND ABOLITIONISM -- CHAPTER FOUR CROSS-CULTURAL CONTACT: JOHN STEDMAN, THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE SLAVES -- JOHN STEDMAN'S REDEMPTON AND THE DYNAMICS OF MISCEGENATION -- THEORIES OF DIFFERENCE / SIMILITUDE -- LAWS OF CONTROL: THE NEGATION OF PROPERTY AND THE PROHIBITION OF MISCEGENATION -- THE WRITTEN VS. THE SPOKEN WORD -- DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: PAINE, JEFFERSON AND THE SLAVES -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER FIVE THE DIASPORIC IDENTITY: LANGUAGE AND THE PARADIGMS OF LIBERATION -- 'WORDS WALKING WITHOUT MASTERS': THE LANGUAGE OF THE DIASPORA -- THE CREOLISATION OF LANGUAGE: CREOLES, BLACK ENGLISH AND PATOIS -- PARADIGMS OF LIBERATION: LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC. CHAPTER SIX THE EARLY SLAVE NARRATIVES: JUPITER HAMMON, JOHN MARRANT AND OTTOBAH GRONNIOSAW -- DISPLACEMENT AND DIASPORA: THE SLAVE NARRATIVES AS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES -- MULATTO DISCOURSES: CHRISTIANITY AND EARLY SLAVE LITERATURE -- JUPITER HAMMON: 'AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE'53 -- JOHN MARRANT: CULTURAL INTERLOCUTOR -- GRONNIOSAW'S 'DELIVERANCE' -- HERMENEUTICS AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES -- CHAPTER SEVEN PHILLIS WHEATLEY: POEMS AND LETTERS -- AN 'ETHIOPIAN SPEAKS' -- 'YOUR LADYSHIP'S OBED'T SERVT' -- TRANSLATION AND SALVATION -- PHILIP QUAQUE AND PHILLIS WHEATLEY -- RECOLLECTION AND REDEMPTION -- CHAPTER EIGHT OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S INTERESTING NARRATIVE -- SYNCHRONISATION: WEST AFRICAN EPISTEMOLOGY AND RADICAL DISSENTING PROTESTANTISM -- MOTHERLANDS AND RITES OF PASSAGE -- AQUA VITAE -- SALVATION? -- THE SPIRIT AND THE BLACK CHURCH TRADITION -- CHAPTER NINE ROBERT WEDDERBURN AND MULATTO DISCOURSE -- 'ACKNOWLEDGE NO KING...ACKNOWLEDGE NO PRIEST'20 -- 'CAN I CONTAIN MYSELF AT THIS?': WEDDERBURN'S HORRORS OF SLAVERY 38 -- NOTES -- INDEX -- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM TITLES PUBLISHED.
The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora.
9780511151088
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR448.S55 T48 2000
820.9358
Romanticism and Slave Narratives : Transatlantic Testimonies. - 1 online resource (350 pages) - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism ; v.38 . - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism .
COVER -- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- TO HUGO, FELIX AND CLAUDE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I -- CHAPTER ONE THE ENGLISH SLAVE TRADE AND ABOLITIONISM -- ABOLITION AND RADICAL DISSENTING PROTESTANTISM -- QUAKERS AND SHAKERS -- THE SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE -- JOHN WESLEY, METHODISM AND ABOLITION -- METAMORPHOSIS: THE DISCOURSE OF THE SPIRIT, MISSIONARY IDEOLOGY AND THE DYNAMICS OF EMPIRE -- CHAPTER TWO RADICAL DISSENT AND SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY JOANNA SOUTHCOTT, JOHN NEWTON AND WILLIAM COWPER -- JOANNA SOUTHCOTT AND THE EVOLUTION OF FEMINISED SPIRITUAL DISCOURSE -- JOHN NEWTON'S ENCOUNTERS -- SPIRITUAL AND OTHERWISE -- WILLIAM COWPER'S AMBIGUOUS DELIVERANCE -- POEMS OF LIBERTY AND DELUGE -- CHAPTER THREE ROMANTICISM AND ABOLITIONISM: MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, WILLIAM BLAKE, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND WILLIAM WORDSWORTH -- COLERIDGE'S BITTER SWEET 'LECTURE ON THE SLAVE TRADE' -- COLERIDGE'S DISCOURSE OF THE SPIRIT: THE 'CONVERSATION POEMS' -- COLERIDGE'S 'LETTER TO SARA HUTCHINSON' -- WORDSWORTH'S SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- WORDSWORTH AND THE SLAVES -- WILLIAM BLAKE: SPIRITUALISM AND ABOLITIONISM -- CHAPTER FOUR CROSS-CULTURAL CONTACT: JOHN STEDMAN, THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE SLAVES -- JOHN STEDMAN'S REDEMPTON AND THE DYNAMICS OF MISCEGENATION -- THEORIES OF DIFFERENCE / SIMILITUDE -- LAWS OF CONTROL: THE NEGATION OF PROPERTY AND THE PROHIBITION OF MISCEGENATION -- THE WRITTEN VS. THE SPOKEN WORD -- DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: PAINE, JEFFERSON AND THE SLAVES -- PART TWO -- CHAPTER FIVE THE DIASPORIC IDENTITY: LANGUAGE AND THE PARADIGMS OF LIBERATION -- 'WORDS WALKING WITHOUT MASTERS': THE LANGUAGE OF THE DIASPORA -- THE CREOLISATION OF LANGUAGE: CREOLES, BLACK ENGLISH AND PATOIS -- PARADIGMS OF LIBERATION: LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC. CHAPTER SIX THE EARLY SLAVE NARRATIVES: JUPITER HAMMON, JOHN MARRANT AND OTTOBAH GRONNIOSAW -- DISPLACEMENT AND DIASPORA: THE SLAVE NARRATIVES AS AUTOBIOGRAPHIES -- MULATTO DISCOURSES: CHRISTIANITY AND EARLY SLAVE LITERATURE -- JUPITER HAMMON: 'AND YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE'53 -- JOHN MARRANT: CULTURAL INTERLOCUTOR -- GRONNIOSAW'S 'DELIVERANCE' -- HERMENEUTICS AND CULTURAL BOUNDARIES -- CHAPTER SEVEN PHILLIS WHEATLEY: POEMS AND LETTERS -- AN 'ETHIOPIAN SPEAKS' -- 'YOUR LADYSHIP'S OBED'T SERVT' -- TRANSLATION AND SALVATION -- PHILIP QUAQUE AND PHILLIS WHEATLEY -- RECOLLECTION AND REDEMPTION -- CHAPTER EIGHT OLAUDAH EQUIANO'S INTERESTING NARRATIVE -- SYNCHRONISATION: WEST AFRICAN EPISTEMOLOGY AND RADICAL DISSENTING PROTESTANTISM -- MOTHERLANDS AND RITES OF PASSAGE -- AQUA VITAE -- SALVATION? -- THE SPIRIT AND THE BLACK CHURCH TRADITION -- CHAPTER NINE ROBERT WEDDERBURN AND MULATTO DISCOURSE -- 'ACKNOWLEDGE NO KING...ACKNOWLEDGE NO PRIEST'20 -- 'CAN I CONTAIN MYSELF AT THIS?': WEDDERBURN'S HORRORS OF SLAVERY 38 -- NOTES -- INDEX -- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM TITLES PUBLISHED.
The first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora.
9780511151088
English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PR448.S55 T48 2000
820.9358