Table of contents
General introduction
Slavery, literature and the emotions
Part One.Slavery, sentiment and affect
Chapter 1.Slavery, sentimentality and the abolition of affect
Chapter 2.Race and affect in Gustave de Beaumont’s Marie, ou L’esclavage aux Etats-Unis
Chapter 3.Touching difference and colonial space: Niels P. Holbech’s Little Marie on Neky’s Arm
Part Two.Slavery between literary codes
Chapter 4.In search of home: Fear and the dream of belonging in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History; or, the Horrors of St.
Domingo
Chapter 5.Showing and feeling the atrocities of slavery: Abolition, human rights violations, and the aesthetics of the drastic in popular German theatre, circa 1800
Chapter 6.Politics and faith, slavery and abolition in nineteenth-century Brazilian literature: Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Úrsula (1859) and A escrava (1887)
Chapter 7.Melodramatic tableaux vivants: Slavery and passionate melancholy in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab
Part Three.Pity, identifcation and interpellation
Chapter 8.Before sentimental empire: Slavery, genre and emotion on the seventeenth‑century French stage
Chapter 9.No one can imagine my feelings: The rhetoric of race, slavery, and emotional difference in the antebellum south
Chapter 10.Orientalism, slavery and emotion: Slave market scenes in early nineteenth‑century journeys to the Orient
Chapter 11.Haunting slavery: The traumatic gaze in Uncle Tom’s Cabin
and A Romance of the Republic
Part Four.Affective ties
Domination, dependence and reparation
Chapter 12.Testamentary manumission and emotional bonds in eighteenth‑century Saint‑Domingue
Chapter 13.Affection amidst domination in a post‑slavery society: Toward a microhistory of compensation in nineteenth‑century martinique
Chapter 14.Bárbora and Jau: Slavery in the life and poetry of Luis de Camões
Part Five.First-person voices
Silence, trauma and memory
Chapter 15.Scenes of emotions in French early‑modern travel writing from the Caribbean: Du Tertre, Mongin, Labat
Chapter 16.Fear and love in Matanzas: Emotional extremis in the works of Juan Franciso Manzano
Chapter 17.The blood-stained-gate: An archive of emotion and authenticity in the new slave narrative
Volume 1.Biographical descriptions
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