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British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment and Slavery, 1760-1807

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2005
ISBN
1403946264, 9781403946263, 9780230501621
LCC
PR448.S55 C37 2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1384031 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Edition
1st
Pages
248\249
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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."

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