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Ancient slavery and abolition : from Hobbes to Hollywood
Title
Ancient slavery and abolition : from Hobbes to Hollywood / edited by Edith Hall, Richard Alston, and Justine McConnell.
ISBN
9780199574674
0199574677
Published
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
xviii, 509 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"Originating in a conference organised in 2007 by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome at Royal Holloway, University of London, and held at the British Library ... this accessible volume offers a pathbreaking study of the role played by the interpreters of ancient Greek and roman texts in the debates over the abolition of slavery. Focusing on Britain, North America, the Caribbean, and South Africa from the late 17th century, the essays examine the arguments of critics and defenders of slavery and legacy of slavery, in later periods." --Book jacket.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 20, 2016
Series
Classical presences
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-466) and index.
Contents
Introduction : `A Valuable Lesson' / Edith Hall
The Good Master : Pliny, Hobbes, and the Nature of Freedom / Richard Alston
Appropriations of Spartan Helotage in British Anti-Slavery Debates of the 1790s / Stephen Hodkinson, Edith Hall
The Influence of Classical Ideas on the Anti-Slavery Debate at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa (1795-1834) / John Hilton
A Stronger Muse : Classical Influences on Eighteenth-Century Abolitionist Poetry / Brycchan Carey
The Politics of Classicism in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley / Emily Greenwood
Between Victimhood and Agency : Nydia the Slave in Bulwer's The Last Days of Pompeii / Leanne Hunnings
The Problem with Prometheus : Myth, Abolition, and Radicalism / Edith Hall
Recollecting Aristotle : Pro-Slavery Thought in Antebellum America and the Argument of Politics Book I / S. Sara Monoson
The Auctoritas of Antiquity : Debating Slavery through Classical Exempla in the Antebellum USA / Margaret Malamud
Yankee She-Men and Octoroon Electra : Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve on Slavery, Race, and Abolition / David Lupher, Elizabeth Vandiver
Universal Slave Revolts : C. L. R. James's Use of Classical Literature in The Black Jacobins / Lydia Langerwer
Eumaeus and Eurycleia in the Deep South : Odyssean Slavery in Sommersby / Justine McConnell
Postscript : Slavery, Abolition, Modernity, and the Past / Ahuvia Kahane.
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University of London. Royal Holloway. Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome.
British Library.
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