British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment and Slavery, 1760-1807

By Brycchan Carey

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Carey argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect. Examining poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that slave-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."

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1403946264

ISBN13:9781403946263

Release Date:August 2005

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"

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