English Abolitionist Literature of the Nineteenth Century

English Abolitionist Literature of the Nineteenth Century Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• The Romantic Climax
• Criticism: Poetry
  • Colonialism, Race, and Lyric Irony in Blake's ‘The Little Black Boy.’
  • Pre-Romantic and Romantic Abolitionism: Cowper and Blake
• Literary Sources and the Revolution in British Attitudes to Slavery
• Criticism: Prose
  • Abolition as a ‘step to reform in our kingdom’: Chartism, ‘white slaves,’ and a new ‘Uncle Tom’ in England
  • Robert Wedderburn and Mulatto Discourse
• Criticism: Sociopolitical Concerns
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge as Abolitionist
  • Abolition at the Grass-Roots Level
  • Darkness Visible: Race and Representation in Bristol Abolitionist Poetry, 1770-1810
• Criticism: English Abolitionist Literature And Feminism
  • British Women Writers and an Emerging Abolitionist Discourse
  • Extending Discourse and Changing Definitions
  • Conspicuous Consumption: White Abolitionism and English Women's Protest Writing in the 1790s
  • Reclaiming Mrs. Frances Trollope: British Abolitionist and Feminist
• Further Reading