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Author:

Levecq, Christine.

Title:

Slavery and sentiment : the politics of feeling in Black Atlantic antislavery writing, 1770-1850 / Christine Levecq.

Publisher:

University Press of New England,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xii, 306 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Didactic fiction, American--History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
Antislavery movements in literature.
Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-291) and index.

Contents:

Interiority, aesthetics, and antislavery sentiment -- Trade, sailors, national agency, and world citizenship -- Brotherhood, radicalism, and antislavery -- Blood, bodies, and the antebellum slave narrative -- The case of Frederick Douglass -- Epilogue : transnationalism and Black studies.

Series:

Becoming modern

ISBN:

1584657340 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781584657347 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)227929351

LCCN:

2008029050

Locations:

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

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)