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Item'Aetherial Journies, Submarine Exploits': The Debatable Worlds of Natural History in the Late Eighteenth Century(Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)The eye-catching conjunction of ‘Aetherial journies, submarine exploits’ occurs in William Cowper’s ‘The Winter Evening’, where the poet describes the arrival in his secluded village of newspapers from the great Babel of London — that ‘wilderness of strange / But gay confusion’. Amidst advertisements for ‘Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald’, Cowper lists, Aetherial journies, submarine exploits, And Katterfelto with his hair on end At his own wonders, wond’ring for his bread.
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ItemHenry Smeathman and the Natural Economy of Slavery(Boydell & Brewer, 2007)
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ItemIntroduction(Routledge, 2006)
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ItemWomen Writers and Abolition(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010-01-01)The years 1787–88 mark the high tide of popular abolitionism. What had begun as a small-scale protest, with Quakers submitting their first public petition to Parliament in 1783, was soon to culminate in a sudden and widespread outburst of humanitarian revulsion against the ‘abominable’ and ‘indefensible’ trade. There have been many attempts to explain the speed and breadth of the national mobilization against the slave trade. In a recent contribution Seymour Drescher dismisses arguments that attribute the new popularity to ‘chastened anxiety or national humiliation’ at the loss of the North American colonies. Nor does Drescher see abolitionism’s coming of age as a response to heightened internal class conflict, or to an economic decline in the value of the British slave trade. Without offering much explanation himself, apart from the great expansion of print media in this period, what Drescher does note is that popular abolitionism emerged at one of the most shining moments in British history, when the nation revelled in its ‘prosperity, security and power’.1 This means that, while abolitionists might express strong sentiments of outrage, the underlying premise of their protest involved a degree of complacency. As Drescher puts it, ‘how could the world’s most secure, free, religious, just, prosperous and moral nation allow itself to remain the premier perpetrator of the world’s most deadly, brutal, unjust and immoral offences to humanity? How could its people, once fully informed of its inhumanity, hope to continue to be blessed with peace, prosperity and power?
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ItemImagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2009)
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ItemMary Birkett(Alexander Street Press, 2007)
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ItemPost-colonialism(Oxford University Press, 2005)
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ItemFirebrands, Letters and Flowers: Mrs Barbauld and the Priestleys(Cambridge University Press, 2002)
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ItemBulama and Sierra Leone: Utopian islands and visionary interiors(Routledge, 2003)
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ItemThe Journalist(Cambridge University Press, 2002)