Discourse of Slavery

Carl Plasa is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales College of Cardiff. He has published articles on nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature and is presently working on a study of inscriptions of colonialism in Austen, Charlotte Brontë and Rhys., Betty J. Ring is currently completing a doctoral thesis at Birkbeck College, University of London, on post-war consciousness in the work of William Golding.

• Introduction, Carl Plasa, Betty J. Ring; Chapter 1 Looks that Kill, Anne Fogarty; Chapter 2 Sex, Slavery and Rights in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindications, Jane Moore; Chapter 3 “That Mild Beam”, Steven Vine; Chapter 4 “Silent Revolt”, Carl Plasa; Chapter 5 Anglo-American Connections, Elizabeth Jean Sabiston; Chapter 6 “Painting By Numbers”, Betty J. Ring; Chapter 7 Perilous Passages in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, Jon Hauss; Chapter 8 The Irony of Idealism, David Lawrence Rogers; Chapter 9 Prophesying Bodies, April Lidinsky;