Description
Focusing on a range of important antislavery figures, including David Walker, Nat Turner, Maria Stewart, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown, Apocalyptic Sentimentalism illustrates how antislavery discourse worked to redefine violence and vengeance as the ultimate expression (rather than denial) of love and sympathy. At the same time, these warnings of apocalyptic retribution enabled antislavery writers to express, albeit indirectly, fantasies of brutal violence against slaveholders. What began as a sentimental strategy quickly became an incendiary gesture, with antislavery reformers envisioning the complete annihilation of slaveholders and defenders of slavery.
About the Author
Kevin Pelletier is an associate professor of English at the University of Richmond, USA. His work has been published in African American Review, Cultural Critique, and LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory.
Book Information
ISBN 9780820339481
Author Kevin Pelletier
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint University of Georgia Press
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Weight(grams) 533g