Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Differences. The race of/in romanticism / Marlon B. Ross -- Our variousness / C.S. Giscombe -- The African queen / Paul Youngquist -- Resistances. Fictions of slave resistance and revolt: Robert Southey's Poems on the slave trade (1797) and Charlotte Smith's "The story of Henrietta" / Peter J. Kitson -- Sable warriors and neglected tars: Edward Rushton's Atlantic politics / Grégory Pierrot -- Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldrich and Three-Fingered Jack / Frances R. Botkin -- Crossings. Single mothers in romantic history and literature / Debbie Lee -- Emma and Fatima Hamilton: two forms of attitude / Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer -- In the face of difference: Molineaux, Crib, and the violence of the fancy / Daniel O'Quinn.
Series:
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
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