Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

By Marcus Wood

This study considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of England from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Marcus Wood writes from the conviction that slavery was, and still is, a dilemma for everyone in England, and seeks to explain why English society has constructed Atlantic slavery in the way it has.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198187203
• ISBN13: 9780198187202
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"