British Abolitionism And The Rhetoric Of Sensibility

Author : B. Carey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230501621

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British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility by B. Carey Pdf

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'.

Author : Stephen Ahern
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409455610

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Affect and Abolition in the Anglo-Atlantic, 1770-1830 by Stephen Ahern Pdf

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.

Author : Brycchan Carey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300182279

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From Peace to Freedom by Brycchan Carey Pdf

DIV 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. /div

Author : Srividhya Swaminathan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317154181

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Debating the Slave Trade by Srividhya Swaminathan Pdf

How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate. Framing them as competing narratives engaged in defining the nature of the Briton, Swaminathan reads the arguments of pro- and anti-abolitionists as a series of dialogues among diverse groups at the center and peripheries of the empire. Arguing that neither side emerged triumphant, Swaminathan suggests that the Briton who emerged from these debates represented a synthesis of arguments, and that the debates to abolish the slave trade are marked by rhetorical transformations defining the image of the Briton as one that led naturally to nineteenth-century imperialism and a sense of global superiority. Because the slave-trade debates were waged openly in print rather than behind the closed doors of Parliament, they exerted a singular influence on the British public. At their height, between 1788 and 1793, publications numbered in the hundreds, spanned every genre, and circulated throughout the empire. Among the voices represented are writers from both sides of the Atlantic in dialogue with one another, such as key African authors like Ignatius Sancho, Phillis Wheatley, and Olaudah Equiano; West India planters and merchants; and Quaker activist Anthony Benezet. Throughout, Swaminathan offers fresh and nuanced readings that eschew the view that the abolition of the slave trade was inevitable or that the ultimate defeat of pro-slavery advocates was absolute.

Author : Paula E. Dumas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137558589

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Proslavery Britain by Paula E. Dumas Pdf

This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art, poetry, and literature, to propaganda, scientific studies, and parliamentary papers, Proslavery Britain explores the many ways in which slavery's defenders helped shape the processes of abolition and emancipation. It finds that proslavery arguments and rhetoric were carefully crafted to justify slavery, defend the colonies, and attack the abolition movement at the height of the slavery debates.

Author : Nancy E. Johnson,Paul Keen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108404235

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Mary Wollstonecraft in Context by Nancy E. Johnson,Paul Keen Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Scott
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066310059

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A Description of Millenium Hall (Feminist Classic) by Sarah Scott Pdf

This adventure novel tells the tale of the Millenium Hall, the female Utopia. The people in the Hall live in a model of mid-century reform ideas. All the women have crafts with which to better themselves. Property is held in common, and education is the primary pastime. The narrator's long-lost cousin relates the series of adventures and how each of the residents arrived at this female Utopia. The adventures are remarkable for their reliance on a nearly superstitious form of divine grace, where God's will manifests itself with the direct punishment of the wicked and the miraculous protection of the innocent. In one tale, a woman about to be ravished by a man is saved, literally by the hand of God, as her attacker dies of a stroke. Millenium Hall was Sarah Scott's most significant novel. Interest in it has revived in the 21st century among feminist literary scholars.

Author : Professor Srividhya Swaminathan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409475361

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Debating the Slave Trade by Professor Srividhya Swaminathan Pdf

How did the arguments developed in the debate to abolish the slave trade help to construct a British national identity and character in the late eighteenth century? Srividhya Swaminathan examines books, pamphlets, and literary works to trace the changes in rhetorical strategies utilized by both sides of the abolitionist debate. Framing them as competing narratives engaged in defining the nature of the Briton, Swaminathan reads the arguments of pro- and anti-abolitionists as a series of dialogues among diverse groups at the center and peripheries of the empire. Arguing that neither side emerged triumphant, Swaminathan suggests that the Briton who emerged from these debates represented a synthesis of arguments, and that the debates to abolish the slave trade are marked by rhetorical transformations defining the image of the Briton as one that led naturally to nineteenth-century imperialism and a sense of global superiority. Because the slave-trade debates were waged openly in print rather than behind the closed doors of Parliament, they exerted a singular influence on the British public. At their height, between 1788 and 1793, publications numbered in the hundreds, spanned every genre, and circulated throughout the empire. Among the voices represented are writers from both sides of the Atlantic in dialogue with one another, such as key African authors like Ignatius Sancho, Phillis Wheatley, and Olaudah Equiano; West India planters and merchants; and Quaker activist Anthony Benezet. Throughout, Swaminathan offers fresh and nuanced readings that eschew the view that the abolition of the slave trade was inevitable or that the ultimate defeat of pro-slavery advocates was absolute.

Author : Brycchan Carey,Geoffrey Plank
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780252096129

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Quakers and Abolition by Brycchan Carey,Geoffrey Plank Pdf

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.

Author : G. J. Barker-Benfield
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031374203

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Ignatius Sancho and the British Abolitionist Movement, 1729-1786 by G. J. Barker-Benfield Pdf

This book highlights the significant role played by Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-80), the first black man to vote in England, in the British abolitionist movement. Examining the letters of Sancho, and especially his correspondence with the influential novelist and preacher, Laurence Sterne, the author analyses the relationship between sensibility and antislavery in eighteenth-century Britain. The book demonstrates how Sancho navigated the bawdy, riotous conditions of commercial London, which was the headquarters of a growing and war-torn Empire. It shows how Sancho mastered the fashionable and gendered language of the culture of sensibility, navigating the contemporary issues of race, slavery, and politics. The book also touches on the White metropolitan and colonial preoccupation with Black men’s sexuality, which was intensified by the Somerset decision of 1772. Sancho’s was a unique and influential voice in eighteenth-century Britain, making this book an insightful read for scholars of anti-slavery as well as gender, race and imperialism in British history.

Author : B. Carey,M. Ellis,S. Salih
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230522602

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Discourses of Slavery and Abolition by B. Carey,M. Ellis,S. Salih Pdf

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.

Author : Peggy Zawadil
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783668110427

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British Abolitionism in Hannah More's "Slavery, A Poem" by Peggy Zawadil Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Potsdam, language: English, abstract: In the following, the author wants to explore in what way the poem "Slavery, A Poem" by Hannah More serves abolitionist means. A quote of Hannah More (1745 - 1833) in a letter to her sister states: “I grieve I did not set about it sooner; as it must now be done in such a hurry... but, good or bad, if it does not come out at the particular moment when the discussion comes on in Parliament, it will not be worth a straw.” (Feldman, 1997, p. 470) This statement is referring to her poem “Slavery, A Poem.” that she wrote in 1788. Reading this quotation one can act on the assumption that the poem and its time of publication served a specific purpose. Knowing that Hannah More was an active member of the British abolitionism and knowing that she wrote the poem for this very reason; we can come to the following study question: In what way is the typical British abolitionism represented in Hannah Mores poem?

Author : Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004388833

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"To Renew the Covenant" by Jon R. Kershner Pdf

In “To Renew the Covenant”: Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism, Jon R. Kershner argues that antislavery Quakers believed they were part of a covenant with God, which motivated their desire to take a corporate position against slavery.

Author : Deirdre Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521632137

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Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery by Deirdre Coleman Pdf

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Author : John Wesley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1774
Category : Slavery
ISBN : UCD:31175007192837

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Thoughts Upon Slavery by John Wesley Pdf