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Slavery, empathy and pornography

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posted on 2023-06-08, 07:58 authored by Marcus Wood
Slavery empathy and pornography takes a shocking new look at the literatures and arts generated buy the slavery debates in England 1780-1865. Wood asserts that slavery not only was but remains, a dilemma for evreyone in Brtain. The book is interdisciplinary, incorporating materials ranging from cononical literatures to the lowest forms of street publication. The central chapters cross examine the slvery writings of William Cobbett, John Thelwall, John Stedman, Harriet Martineau, John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle. Many new perspectives are used to open up the older texts, for example Caryl Phillips's 'Crossing the River' is read against the slavery writings of John Newton, and William Blake's work is read through the imagery of Robert Mapplethorpe.

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  • Published

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pages

467.0

Place of publication

Oxford ; New York

ISBN

9780198187202

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  • English Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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