Amidst the popularization of race science and rapid colonial expansion that characterized the Romantic era, newly urgent discussions about the morality and legality of slavery emerged that would pave the way for formal abolition. The thirteen essays collected here make clear that these developments thoroughly informed Romantic-era literature: the very terms that have long defined Romanticism - revolution and radicalism, poetry and "powerful feeling," the solitary self and the social world - were shaped by a changing global order in which race figured centrally. Combining academic rigor with accessibility, this diverse group of scholars presents specialists and non-specialists alike with a rich picture of this key moment in the literary and cultural history of race. Engaging with the distinctly Romantic meanings of race, chapters invite readers to consider how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about difference continue to shape the modern world.
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Manu Samriti Chander is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University. He is the author of Brown Romantics: Poetry and Nationalism in the Global Nineteenth Century (2017) and co-editor, with Tricia A. Matthew, of the series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture.
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List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction Manu Samriti Chander; 1. Burke and Kant on Color and Inheritance Yoon Sun Lee; 2. Breathing Freedom in the Era of the Haitian Revolution Catherine R. Peters; 3. Afropessimism, Queer Negativity, and the Limits of Romanticism Deanna P. Koretsky; 4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Racial Imaginary Mathelinda Nabugodi; 5. (Not)freedom DJ Lee and Aaron Ngozi Oforlea; 6. Disability and Racialization in British Romantic Literature Essaka Joshua; 7. The Crip Foundations of Romantic Medicine Travis Chi Wing Lau; 8. The Voice of Complaint Joseph Albernaz; 9. Romantic Manscapes Devin M. Garofalo; 10. Romantic Poetry and Constructions of Indigeneity Nikki Hessell; 11. Romanticism and the Novel(ty) of Race Atesede Makonnen; 12. Reading Race Along the 'Bounding Line' Lauren Dembowitz; 13. The Racecraft of Romantic Stagecraft Yasser Shams Khan; Further reading; Index.
