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Author:

Swaminathan, Srividhya

Title:

Debating the slave trade : rhetoric of British national identity, 1759-1815 / Srividhya Swaminathan.

Publisher:

Ashgate,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiii, 245 p. : ill., plans ; 25 cm.

Subject:

English literature--18th century--History and criticism
Slavery in literature
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--19th century.
English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English language--18th century--Rhetoric.
English language--19th century--Rhetoric.
Antislavery movements in literature
Slave trade in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-237) and index.

Contents:

Building a common vocabulary: the language of reform and the slave-trade debates -- Converging arguments in British resistance: writing from the colonies to Great Britain, 1759-1776 -- Proliferating antislavery arguments and the creation of an activist community, 1772-1789 -- The proslavery rebuttal: developing new strategies of defense, 1770-1789.

Series:

Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies

ISBN:

0754667677 (alk. paper)
9780754667674 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)302099197

LCCN:

2009003047

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)