
Slavery and the Romantic Imagination
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 a...
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 a...