Slavery and the Romantic Imagination

by Debbie Lee

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218825
• ISBN13: 9780812218824
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"