Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography
, by Wood, MarcusNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780198187202 | 0198187203
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/6/2003
This study considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of England from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Marcus Wood writes from the conviction that slavery was, and still is, a dilemma for everyone in England, and seeks to explain why English society has constructed Atlantic slavery in the way it has.