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  1. Slavery and the culture of taste
    Published: ©2011
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0691140669; 1400840112; 9780691140667; 9781400840113
    Subjects: Slavery; Social Science; Literature; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery; HISTORY / United States / 19th Century; Ethik; Literatur; Sklaverei; Slavery in literature; Slavery; Umgangsformen; Höflichkeit; Ästhetik; Moral; Sklaverei
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 366 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-352) and index

    Overture: sensibility in the age of slavery -- Intersections: taste, slavery, and the modern self -- Unspeakable events: slavery and white self-fashioning -- Close encounters: taste and the taint of slavery -- "Popping sorrow": loss and the transformation of servitude -- The ontology of play: mimicry and the counterculture of taste

  2. Slavery and the culture of taste
    Published: 2011; ©2011
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Overture: sensibility in the age of slavery -- Intersections: taste, slavery, and the modern self -- Unspeakable events: slavery and white self-fashioning -- Close encounters: taste and the taint of slavery -- "Popping sorrow": loss and the... more

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    Overture: sensibility in the age of slavery -- Intersections: taste, slavery, and the modern self -- Unspeakable events: slavery and white self-fashioning -- Close encounters: taste and the taint of slavery -- "Popping sorrow": loss and the transformation of servitude -- The ontology of play: mimicry and the counterculture of taste

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 0691140669; 1400840112; 9780691140667; 9781400840113
    Subjects: Slavery in literature; Slavery; Esclavage dans la littérature; SOCIAL SCIENCE - Slavery; HISTORY - United States - 19th Century; Slavery in literature; Slavery - Moral and ethical aspects; Sklave; Sklaverei; Kultur; Ästhetik; Motiv
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 366 pages), illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-352) and index

  3. Slavery and the culture of taste
    Published: c2011
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary,... more

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    It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actua Overture: sensibility in the age of slavery -- Intersections: taste, slavery, and the modern self -- Unspeakable events: slavery and white self-fashioning -- Close encounters: taste and the taint of slavery -- "Popping sorrow": loss and the transformation of servitude -- The ontology of play: mimicry and the counterculture of taste.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400840113; 1400840112
    Subjects: Slavery; Slavery in literature; Slavery; Slavery; Social Science; Literature; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Slavery; HISTORY ; United States ; 19th Century; Slavery in literature; Slavery ; Moral and ethical aspects; Ästhetik; Höflichkeit; Moral; Sklaverei; Umgangsformen; Sklave; Sklaverei; Kultur; Ästhetik; Motiv
    Scope: Online Ressource (xviii, 366 p.), ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-352) and index. - Description based on print version record