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

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

Carey, B.

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Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultu

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1403946264
ISBN13: 9781403946263
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 31 2005
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.62
Language: English
British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect in the most important political and humanitarian battle of the time. Examining both familiar and unfamiliar texts, including poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that salve-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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