Spectacular suffering : : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic /

Spectacular suffering : : witnessing slavery in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic / / Ramesh Mallipeddi.

"An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a mea...

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Mallipeddi, Ramesh,
Place / Publishing House:Charlottesville : : University of Virginia Press,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 pages) :; illustrations
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264 1 |a Charlottesville :  |b University of Virginia Press,  |c 2016. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: Sentimentalism, capitalist modernity, colonial slavery -- Spectacle, spectatorship, sympathy : Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and the English commercial empire -- Yarico's complaint : the female slave in the eighteenth-century public sphere -- English subjects, African slaves : Laurence Sterne and the politics of punishment -- Reforming labor discipline : slave culture and sentimental fiction -- "A fixed melancholy" : memories of migration in Atlantic slavery -- Filiation to affiliation : kinship and sentiment in Olaudah Equiano's interesting narrative -- Epilogue: The problem of slavery, the problem of freedom. 
520 2 |a "An extended analysis of the intersections between the institutional contexts of slavery and the affective structures of sentiment, Spectacular Suffering considers not only how the enslaved subject is constructed, but also how slaves responded to and registered their experiences, creating a measure of autonomy even under the conditions of slavery"--Provided by publisher. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
590 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Slavery  |z America  |x History  |y 18th century  |v Sources. 
650 0 |a Sentimentalism  |z America  |x History  |y 18th century  |v Sources. 
650 0 |a Suffering  |z America  |x History  |y 18th century  |v Sources. 
650 0 |a Slavery in literature. 
650 0 |a Sentimentalism in literature. 
650 0 |a Suffering in literature. 
650 0 |a English literature  |y 18th century  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a American literature  |y Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Slaves' writings, American  |x History and criticism. 
651 0 |a Great Britain  |x Colonies  |z America  |x History  |y 18th century  |v Sources. 
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