British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility: Writing, Sentiment and Slavery, 1760-1807

by Brycchan Carey

Carey argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhetoric, using the language of the heart to powerful effect. Examining poetry, novels, journalism, and political writing, Carey shows that slave-owners and abolitionists alike made strategic use of the rhetoric of sensibility in the hope of influencing a reading public thoroughly immersed in the "cult of feeling."

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403946264
• ISBN13: 9781403946263
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"