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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. General introduction xi
5. Slavery, literature and the emotions 1
6. Part One. Slavery, sentiment and affect
7. Chapter 1. Slavery, sentimentality and the abolition of affect 18
8. Chapter 2. Race and affect in Gustave de Beaumont’s Marie, ou L’esclavage aux Etats‑Unis 34
9. Chapter 3. Touching difference and colonial space 50
10. Part Two. Slavery between literary codes
11. Chapter 4. In search of home 78
12. Chapter 5. Showing and feeling the atrocities of slavery 95
13. Chapter 6. Politics and faith, slavery and abolition in nineteenth-century Brazilian literature 110
14. Chapter 7. Melodramatic tableaux vivants 136
15. Part Three. Pity, identification and interpellation
16. Chapter 8. Before sentimental empire 158
17. Chapter 9. “No one can imagine my feelings” 173
18. Chapter 10. Orientalism, slavery and emotion 191
19. Chapter 11. Haunting slavery 207
20. Part Four. Affective ties
21. Chapter 12. Testamentary manumission and emotional bonds in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue 226
22. Chapter 13. Affection amidst domination in a post-slavery society 239
23. Chapter 14. Bárbora and Jau 254
24. Part Five. First-person voices
25. Chapter 15. Scenes of emotion in French early-modern travel writing from the Caribbean 272
26. Chapter 16. Fear and love in Matanzas 289
27. Chapter 17. The blood-stained-gate 307
28. Volume 1. Biographical descriptions 325
29. Name index 331