Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons
Romanticism's Black Geographies
Author: Katey Castellano Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Employs Wedderburn's stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to boldly reassess Romantic-era writing across multiple genres.
Centring Black experience and bringing together scholarship in Romanticism, Black studies, and environmental humanities, this study follows the political thought of Robert Wedderburn, using his stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to launch innovative readings of Romantic-era abolition, landscape, and revolution.
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Employs Wedderburn's stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to boldly reassess Romantic-era writing across multiple genres.
Centring Black experience and bringing together scholarship in Romanticism, Black studies, and environmental humanities, this study follows the political thought of Robert Wedderburn, using his stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to launch innovative readings of Romantic-era abolition, landscape, and revolution.
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Building on scholarship in Romanticism, Black studies, and environmental humanities, this book follows the political thought of Robert Wedderburn, a Black Romantic-era writer. Wedderburn was deeply influenced by his enslaved mother and grandmother, who raised him in Jamaica. After migrating to London, he became a key figure in ultraradical circles and was prosecuted by the British government for blasphemous libel. Wedderburn's vision for abolition from below sought to forge a transatlantic alliance between English agrarian radicals and enslaved people in the Caribbean. Instead of emancipation administered by British colonial and commercial interests, Wedderburn championed the ecological projects of enslaved and Maroon communities in the Caribbean as models for liberation. His stories of Black, place-based opposition to slavery provide an innovative lens for rereading significant aspects of the Romantic period, including the abolition of slavery, landscape aesthetics, and nineteenth-century radical politics.
About the Author
Katey Castellano is Professor of English at James Madison University and author of The Ecology of British Romantic Conservatism (2013).
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