284 Pages
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Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
284 Pages
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Routledge
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In highlighting the crucial contributions of diasporic people to British cultural production, this important collection defamiliarizes prevailing descriptions of Romanticism as the expression of a national character or culture. The contributors approach the period from the perspective of the Atlantic maritime economy, making a strong case for viewing British Romanticism as the effect of myriad... Read more
Introduction, Paul Youngquist; Part 1 Differences; Chapter 1 The Race of/in Romanticism: Notes Toward a Critical Race Theory, Marlon B. Ross; Chapter 2 Our Variousness, C. S. Giscombe; Chapter 3 The African Queen, Paul Youngquist; Part 2 Resistances; Chapter 4 Fictions of Slave Resistance and Revolt: Robert Southey's Poems on the Slave Trade (1797) and Charlotte Smith's The Story of Henrietta (1800), Peter J. Kitson; Chapter 5 Sable Warriors and Neglected Tars: Edward Rushton's Atlantic Politics, Grégory Pierrot; Chapter 6 Being Jack Mansong: Ira Aldridge and the History of Three-Fingered Jack, Frances R. Botkin; Part 3 Crossings; Chapter 7 Black Single Mothers in Romantic History and Literature, Debbie Lee; Chapter 8 Emma and Fatima Hamilton: Two Forms of Attitude, Elise Bruhl, Michael Garner; Chapter 9 In the Face of Difference: Molineaux, Crib, and the Violence of the Fancy, Daniel O’Quinn;
Biography
Paul Youngquist is Professor of English at the University of Colorado.
A Baker & Taylor Academic Essentials Title in Area/Ethnic Studies: Black Studies outside the U.S. ’Emphasizing circulation and creolization in the Atlantic, this welcome collection explores the African presence in Romantic literature, culture, and interpretation. Essays on poetry, the stage, racism, exploration of Africa, boxing, single mothers, female beauty, rebellion, holiday festivals, and exiled British loyalists, examine the varied populations and cultures slavery forged. Polemical and critical, these essays connect Liverpool, Kingston, London, Nova Scotia, and Senegal.’ Roxann Wheeler, The Ohio State University, USA ’The value of this new addition to the growing body of work on this subject lies in its insistence that emergence and structural dilemmas of British Romanticism, its ideology and political crises, were a direct product of economic and cultural Atlantic networks.’ Wordsworth Circle ’Youngquist’s collection is timely not just because it builds on an important trend in the field of Romanticism, continuing to remind us that any history of the era, literary or otherwise, must deal with the question of race, but also because our understanding of our own era is incomplete without a deep awareness of the legacy of Romanticism and its complex articulations of blackness.’ Romantic Textualities ’...this collection delivers a wonderful variety of incisive essays essential to the remaking of the Romantic canon and its criticism.’ BARS Review
