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    'Aetherial Journies, Submarine Exploits': The Debatable Worlds of Natural History in the Late Eighteenth Century
    COLEMAN, D ; Lamont, C ; Rossington, M (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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    Henry Smeathman and the Natural Economy of Slavery
    COLEMAN, D ; Carey, B ; Kitson, P (Boydell & Brewer, 2007)
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    Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery
    COLEMAN, D (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
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    Introduction
    Coleman, D ; Coleman, D (Routledge, 2006)
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    Women Writers and Abolition
    Coleman, D ; Labbe, JM (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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    The "Dog-Man": Race, Sex, Species, and Lineage in Coetzee's Disgrace
    Coleman, D (HOFSTRA UNIV PRESS, 2009-01-01)
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    Imagining Sameness and Difference: Domestic and Colonial Sisters in Mansfield Park
    COLEMAN, D ; Johnson, C ; Tuite, C (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2009)
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    Introduction: Minds, Bodies, Machines
    COLEMAN, D ; Fraser, H (University of London, 2008)
    This issue of 19 brings together a selection of essays from an interdisciplinary conference on 'Minds, Bodies, Machines' convened last year by Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of London, in partnership with the English programme, University of Melbourne and software developers Constraint Technologies International (CTI). The conference explored the relationship between minds, bodies and machines in the long nineteenth century, with a view to understanding the history of our technology-driven, post-human visions. It is in the nineteenth century that the relationship between the human and the machine under post-industrial capitalism becomes a pervasive theme. From Blake on the mills of the mind by which we are enslaved, to Carlyle's and Arnold's denunciation of the machinery of modern life, from Dickens's sooty fictional locomotive Mr Pancks, who 'snorted and sniffed and puffed and blew, like a little labouring steam-engine', and 'shot out […]cinders of principles, as if it were done by mechanical revolvency', to the alienated historical body of the late-nineteenth-century factory worker under Taylorization, whose movements and gestures were timed, regulated and rationalised to maximize efficiency; we find a cultural preoccupation with the mechanisation of the nineteenth-century human body that uncannily resonates with modern dreams and anxieties around technologies of the human.
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    Mary Birkett
    COLEMAN, D ; Behrendt, S (Alexander Street Press, 2007)
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    Post-colonialism
    COLEMAN, D ; Roe, N (Oxford University Press, 2005)