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Article: Slavery and the Romantic Imagination. (Reviews).(Book Review)
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- African American Review
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- December 22, 2002
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Debbie Lee. Slavery and the Romantic Imagination. Philadelphia: U or Pennsylvania P, 2002. 310 pp. $55.00.
For most of the twentieth century, the principal writers of British Romanticism (1780-1830 or thereabouts) were viewed as having held themselves aloof from social and political problems in the real world, escaping (in their writings at least) to secluded nooks in Somerset or the Lake District or, even less realistically, to otherworldly realms of pure imagination. Until quite recently, the very unromantic facts of the British slave trade, whose principal dates coincide almost exactly with those of the Romantic period--facts that were constantly present in the ...