Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery

• Author(s): Deirdre Coleman,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 273
• ISBN_10: 0521632137
  ISBN_13: 9780521632133
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Social Science / Emigration & Immigration , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Slavery ,

Description:... The loss of Britain's transatlantic empire precipitated much debate about the nature of colonization in the period 1770-1800. The growing popularity of the anti-slavery movement, combined with the changing impact of colonialism and immigration in England, prompted many utopian and Romantic responses to colonization. Deirdre Coleman examines Romantic initiatives to find ways of founding an empire without slaves, a new world which could also encompass revolutionary sexual, racial, and labour arrangements.