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First published in 1994. The Discourse of Slavery is an innovative collection of fascinating essays addressing the problematic of slavery within literary, cultural and political writings. For the first time, slavery is examined critically within both the British and the American context, and related to contemporary concerns around race and gender. Writers discussed include: Aphra Behn William Blake Mary Wollstonecraft Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell Toni Morrison William Faulkner Harriet Jacobs Harriet Beecher Stowe Frederick Douglass The Discourse of Slavery will be an invaluable and intriguing volume for students of literature, gender, race and ethnicity.

An inovative collection of essays addressing the problematic of slavery in British and American literary, cultural and political writings, from Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison.

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CONTENTS
Notes on contributors = ⅶ
Acknowledgements = ⅸ
Foreword / Isobel Armstrong = xi
Introduction / Carl Plasa ; Betty J. Ring = xiii
1 LOOKS THAT KILL : Violence and representation in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / Anne Fogarty = 1
2 SEX, SLAVERY AND RIGHTS IN MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT'S VINDICATIONS / Jane Moore = 18
3 "THAT MILD BEAM" : Enlightenment and enslavement in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion / Steven Vine = 40
4 "SILENT REVOLT" : Slavery and the politics of metaphor in Jane Eyre / Carl Plasa = 64
5 ANGLO-AMERICAN CONNECTIONS : Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Beecher Stowe and the "Iron of slavery" / Elizabeth Jean Sabiston = 94
6 "PAINTING BY NUMBERS" : Figuring Frederick Douglass / Betty J. Ring = 118
7 PERILOUS PASSAGES IN HARRIET JACOBS'S INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL / Jon Hauss = 144
8 THE IRONY OF IDEALISM : William Faulkner and the South's construction of the mulatto / David Lawrence Rogers = 166
9 PROPHESYING BODIES : Calling for a politics of collectivity in Toni Morrison's Beloved / April Lidinsky = 191
List of plates
 1 Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion = 51
 2 Blake, Family of Negro Slaves form Poango = 55
 3 Blake, Europe supported by Africa America = 56
Index = 217