British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment and Slavery,1760-1807 (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print)
by Brycchan Carey
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British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect in the most important political and humanitarian battle of the time. Examining both familiar and unfamiliar texts, including poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that salve-owners and abolitionists alike made strategic use of the rhetoric of show more sensibility in the hope of influencing a reading public thoroughly immersed in the 'cult of feeling'. show lessTags
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