Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination

Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination

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Swaminathan Srividhya
Taylor & Francis Ltd
EAN: 9781138249318
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In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World, the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the power of association.
EAN 9781138249318
ISBN 1138249319
Typ produktu Měkká vazba
Vydavatel Taylor & Francis Ltd
Datum vydání 19. října 2016
Stránky 232
Jazyk English
Rozměry 234 x 156
Země United Kingdom
Sekce General
Autoři Beach Adam R.; Swaminathan Srividhya
Série British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century