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A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond
Edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
[Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages XXXVI] 2024
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

PrefaceVII
General introductionXI
Slavery, literature and the emotions: Introduction1

Part One.Slavery, sentiment and affect

Chapter 1.Slavery, sentimentality and the abolition of affect18
Chapter 2.Race and affect in Gustave de Beaumont’s Marie, ou L’esclavage aux Etats-Unis34
Chapter 3.Touching difference and colonial space: Niels P. Holbech’s Little Marie on Neky’s Arm50

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. Domingo78
Chapter 5.Showing and feeling the atrocities of slavery: Abolition, human rights violations, and the aesthetics of the drastic in popular German theatre, circa 180095
Chapter 6.Politics and faith, slavery and abolition in nineteenth-century Brazilian literature: Maria Firmina dos Reis’s Úrsula (1859) and A escrava (1887)110
Chapter 7.Melodramatic tableaux vivants: Slavery and passionate melancholy in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab136

Part Three.Pity, identification and interpellation

Chapter 8.Before sentimental empire: Slavery, genre and emotion on the seventeenth‑century French stage158
Chapter 9.“No one can imagine my feelings”: The rhetoric of race, slavery, and emotional difference in the antebellum South173
Chapter 10.Orientalism, slavery and emotion: Slave market scenes in early nineteenth‑century journeys to the Orient191
Chapter 11.Haunting slavery: The Traumatic Gaze in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and A Romance of the Republic207

Part Four.Affective ties

Domination, dependence and reparation
Chapter 12.Testamentary manumission and emotional bonds in eighteenth‑century Saint‑Domingue226
Chapter 13.Affection amidst domination in a post‑slavery society: Toward a microhistory of compensation in nineteenth‑century Martinique239
Chapter 14.Bárbora and Jau: Slavery in the life and poetry of Luís de Camões254

Part Five.First-person voices

Silence, trauma and memory
Chapter 15.Scenes of emotion in French early‑modern travel writing from the Caribbean: Du Tertre, Mongin, Labat272
Chapter 16.Fear and love in Matanzas: Emotional extremis in the works of Juan Francisco Manzano289
Chapter 17.The blood-stained-gate: An archive of emotion and authenticity in the new slave narrative307
Volume 1.Biographical descriptions325
Name index