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<p>Selected by <i>Choice</i> magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title</p> <p>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 or her era. In dealing with the Romantic period, this question becomes more specific: what is the relationship between the nation's greatest writers and the epic violence of slavery? In answer, <i>Slavery and the Romantic Imagination</i> provides a fully historicized and theorized account of the intimate relationship between slavery, African exploration, "the Romantic imagination," and the literary works produced by this conjunction.</p> <p>Though the topics of race, slavery, exploration, and empire have come to shape literary criticism and cultural studies over the past two decades, slavery has, surprisingly, not been widely examined in the most iconic literary texts of nineteenth-century Britain, even though emancipation efforts coincide

Author

Debbie Lee

Publisher

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812218824

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism

Updated

2026-03-24