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Romantic movement had profound social implications for
nineteenth-century British culture. Among the most significant,
Debbie Lee contends, was the change it wrought to insular Britons'
ability to distance themselves from the brutalities of chattel
slavery. In the broadest sense, she asks what the relationship is
between the artist and the most hideous crimes of his or her era.
In dealing with the Romantic period, this question becomes more
specific: what is the relationship between the nation's greatest
writers and the epic violence of slavery? In answer, Slavery and
the Romantic Imagination provides a fully historicized and
theorized account of the intimate relationship between slavery,
African exploration, "the Romantic imagination," and the literary
works produced by this conjunction. Though the topics of race,
slavery, exploration, and empire have come to shape literary
criticism and cultural studies over the past two decades, slavery
has, surprisingly, not been widely examined in the most iconic
literary texts of nineteenth-century Britain, even though
emancipation efforts coincide almost exactly with the Romantic
movement. This study opens up new perspectives on Blake,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Keats,
and Mary Prince by setting their works in the context of political
writings, antislavery literature, medicinal tracts, travel
writings, cartography, ethnographic treatises, parliamentary
records, philosophical papers, and iconography.
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