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Contents

List of Illustrations

Texts and Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: History and Imagination

1 British Slavery and African Exploration: The Written Legacy

2 The Distanced Imagination

Part II: Hazards and Horrors in the Slave Colonies

3 Distant Diseases: Yellow Fever in Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

4 Intimacy as Imitation: Monkeys in Blake’s Engravings for Stedman’s Narrative

Part III: Fascination and Fear in Africa

5 African Embraces: Voodoo and Possession in Keats’s Lamia

6 Mapping Interiors: African Cartography, Nile Poetry, and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “The Witch of Atlas”

Part IV: Facing Slavery in Britain

7 Proximity’s Monsters: Ethnography and Anti-Slavery Law in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

8 Intimate Distance: African Women and Infant Death in Wordsworth’s Poetry and The History of Mary Prince

Afterword

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments