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One of the most significant developments in current literary
studies is the rediscovery and reevaluation of texts by British
writers of African descent. This volume combines popular texts with
hard-to-find selections in a format that enables students to place
them in their historical and cultural contexts. For instructors,
the collection offers reliable texts, stimulating context pieces,
and the most useful modern critical essays. The book is divided
into four sections: Narratives, Poetry, Voices (letters), and
Criticism. Native African and African-heritage authors living in
Great Britain and British colonies include Ukawasaw Gronniosaw, an
African prince; John Jea, a preacher; Mary Prince, a slave living
in the West Indies; and Juan Francisco Manzano, a slave living in
Cuba.
Most writers associated with the first generation of British
Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and
others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a
corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning
slavery and the status of the slave.
Most writers associated with the first generation of British
Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and
others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a
corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning
slavery and the status of the slave.
Most writers associated with the first generation of British
Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and
others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a
corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning
slavery and the status of the slave.
Most writers associated with the first generation of British
Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and
others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a
corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning
slavery and the status of the slave.
Most writers associated with the first generation of British
Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and
others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a
corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning
slavery and the status of the slave.
Most writers associated with the first generation of British
Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and
others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a
corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning
slavery and the status of the slave.
Most writers associated with the first generation of British
Romanticism - Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Southey, Thelwall, and
others - wrote against the slave trade. This edition collects a
corpus of work which reflects the issues and theories concerning
slavery and the status of the slave.
In 1768, Captain James Cook made the most important scientific
voyage of the eighteenth century. He was not alone: scores of
explorers like Cook, travelling in the name of science, brought new
worlds and new peoples within the horizon of European knowledge for
the first time. Their discoveries changed the course of science.
Old scientific disciplines, such as astronomy and botany, were
transformed; new ones, like craniology and comparative anatomy,
were brought into being. Scientific disciplines, in turn, pushed
literature of the period towards new subjects, forms and styles.
Works as diverse as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Wordsworth's
Excursion responded to the explorers' and scientists' latest
discoveries. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated study shows how
literary Romanticism arose partly in response to science's
appropriation of explorers' encounters with foreign people and
places and how it, in turn, changed the profile of science and
exploration.
In 1768, Captain James Cook made the most important scientific
voyage of the eighteenth century. He was not alone: scores of
explorers like Cook, travelling in the name of science, brought new
worlds and new peoples within the horizon of European knowledge for
the first time. Their discoveries changed the course of science.
Old scientific disciplines, such as astronomy and botany, were
transformed; new ones, like craniology and comparative anatomy,
were brought into being. Scientific disciplines, in turn, pushed
literature of the period towards new subjects, forms and styles.
Works as diverse as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Wordsworth's
Excursion responded to the explorers' and scientists' latest
discoveries. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated study shows how
literary Romanticism arose partly in response to science's
appropriation of explorers' encounters with foreign people and
places and how it, in turn, changed the profile of science and
exploration.
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The
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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Longing For God (Hardcover)
Marie Debbie Lee; Illustrated by Jin Kang
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Have you ever felt betrayed or forgotten? Have you ever longed for
lasting covenants in a world of broken promises? This book restores
the lost truth of the "Covenant of Strong Friendship." This great,
lost key will heal your heart, bring a deeper meaning to your life,
help you understand the Bible better and make you more Christ-like.
She's guarding a secret...one that, if it's discovered, will
destroy everything she's worked so hard to gain. In order to claim
her inheritance, Jordan Shaw is forced to return to her hometown.
She changes her name and opens a flower shop, praying no one will
ever learn the truth about her past. But when she meets Luke
Kincaid, her carefully-constructed walls come tumbling down...even
though she's convinced he's married. He's in love with two women at
the same time...one of whom he's never even seen. When Luke wanders
into Jordan's flower shop to buy a gift for his mother's birthday,
Jordan falls off a ladder and into his arms. But this encouraging
beginning quickly turns to anger and accusations. What could he
have possibly done to make Jordan hate him? And how can he have
such strong feelings for her when he also finds himself falling for
M.J.-a troubled young woman he has met only through her long-lost
diary?
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