The Dying Negro, a Poem. by the Late Thomas Day and John Bicknell, ... to Which Is Added, a Fragment of a Letter on the Slavery of the Negroes. by Thomas Day, Esq. Embellished with a Frontispiece

The Dying Negro, a Poem. by the Late Thomas Day and John Bicknell, ... to Which Is Added, a Fragment of a Letter on the Slavery of the Negroes. by Thomas Day, Esq. Embellished with a Frontispiece
Author: Thomas Day
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre:
ISBN: 9781379402459

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T135159 With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf. London: printed for John Stockdale, 1793. [4], xi, [1],82, [2]p., plate; 8°

The Suicide Archive

The Suicide Archive
Author: Doyle D. Calhoun
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2024-09-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478059737

Throughout the French empire, from the Atlantic and the Caribbean to West and North Africa, men, women, and children responded to enslavement, colonization, and oppression through acts of suicide. In The Suicide Archive, Doyle D. Calhoun charts a long history of suicidal resistance to French colonialism and neocolonialism, from the time of slavery to the Algerian War for Independence to the “Arab Spring.” Noting that suicide was either obscured in or occluded from French colonial archives, Calhoun turns to literature and film to show how aesthetic forms and narrative accounts can keep alive the silenced histories of suicide as a political language. Drawing on scientific texts, police files, and legal proceedings alongside contemporary African and Afro-Caribbean novels, film, and Senegalese oral history, Calhoun outlines how such aesthetic works rewrite histories of resistance and loss. Consequently, Calhoun offers a new way of writing about suicide, slavery, and coloniality in relation to literary history.

British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility

British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility
Author: B. Carey
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2005-08-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230501621

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'.