British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility Writing, Sentiment and Slavery,1760-1807
, by Carey, BrycchanNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781403946263 | 1403946264
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/19/2005
Carey argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect. Examining poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that slave-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."