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Author:   Fionnghuala Sweeney ,  Fionnuala Dillane ,  Maria Stuart
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780815362524

ISBN 10:   0815362528
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   05 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Foreword – Ireland, slavery, antislavery, post-slavery and empire: an historiographical survey 1. Common ground: positioning Ireland within studies of slavery, anti-slavery and empire Part I – Bodies of Experience 2. ‘A Good Head and a Better Whip’: Ireland, Enlightenment, and the body of slavery in Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women 3. Colonial bodies and the abolition of slavery: a tale of two Cobbes Part II – Humanitarian Politics and Protest 4. Debating empire and slavery: Ireland and British India, 1820–1845 5 ‘This foul slavery-reviving system’: Irish opposition to the Jamaica Emigration Scheme 6. Black abolitionists, Irish supporters, and the brotherhood of man Part III – Geographies of Race 7. Failing to ‘unite with the abolitionists’: the Irish Nationalist Press and U.S. emancipation 8. Amalgamation, moral geography, and ‘slum tourism’: Irish and African Americans sharing space on the streets and stages of antebellum New York

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Fionnghuala Sweeney is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Newcastle University, UK. Her research concentrates on American, African American and Caribbean literature and visual culture, literary connections between Ireland and the Black Atlantic, and Afromodernism. She has published widely in these areas and is author of Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World (2008). Fionnuala Dillane is Lecturer in nineteenth-century Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland, with research interests in Victorian authorship and print cultures, genre history and memory studies. Her most recent work includes Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press (2013), joint winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize. Maria Stuart is Lecturer in American Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research interests are in nineteenth-century American Literature, African American Literature, Crime Fiction and Dysfluency Studies. She is co-editor of The International Reception of Emily Dickinson (with Domhnall Mitchell, 2009).

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