Lynn Festa

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lynn Festa plays a role.

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Festa, Lynn 2024 Chapter 1. Slavery, sentimentality and the abolition of affectA Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. 18–34 | Chapter
This essay addresses the way details about the unspeakable conditions on the slave ships interrupt the sentimentalization of the plight of the enslaved in order to examine the political volatility of affect — in particular, disgust — in the late eighteenth-century metropolitan debates over the… read more