The British Slave Trade and Public Memory

Author:   Elizabeth Wallace, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of English)
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 January 2006
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Elizabeth Wallace, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of English)
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.468kg
ISBN:  

9780231137140


ISBN 10:   0231137141
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 January 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.
Language:   English

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Millennial Reckonings 1. Commemorating the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Liverpool and Bristol 2. Fictionalizing Slavery in the United Kingdom, 1990-2000 3. Seeing Slavery and the Slave Trade 4. Transnationalism and Performance in 'Biyi Bandele's Oroonoko Conclusion Notes Index

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This new perspective enhances the vision of a tolerant, diverse, multiethnic society. Recommended. Choice 10/1/2006 The British Slave Trade and Public Memory, is a welcome and thought-provoking study. -- James Walvin The Public Historian Vol 29:1 Winter 2007 Through this creative melding of museum, literary, and performance studies Wallace considers the responsibilities historical pedagogy entails. -- Deidre Lynch Studies in English Literature Vol 47:3 Summer A useful survey of the British consciousness of slavery. -- Joyce Green MacDonald Eighteenth-Century Studies Vol 41, No 1


This new perspective enhances the vision of a tolerant, diverse, multiethnic society. Recommended. -- Choice The British Slave Trade and Public Memory, is a welcome and thought-provoking study. -- James Walvin, The Public Historian Through this creative melding of museum, literary, and performance studies Wallace considers the responsibilities historical pedagogy entails. -- Deidre Lynch, Studies in English Literature


This new perspective enhances the vision of a tolerant, diverse, multiethnic society. Recommended. -- Choice The British Slave Trade and Public Memory, is a welcome and thought-provoking study. -- James Walvin, The Public Historian Through this creative melding of museum, literary, and performance studies Wallace considers the responsibilities historical pedagogy entails. -- Deidre Lynch, Studies in English Literature A useful survey of the British consciousness of slavery. -- Joyce Green MacDonald, Eighteenth-Century Studies


Author Information

Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace is associate professor of English at Boston College. She is the author of Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century and Their Fathers' Daughters: Hannah More, Maria Edgeworth, and Patriarchal Complicity.

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