British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility

1. Introduction
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2. The Rhetoric of Sensibility
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3. Arguing in Prose: Abolitionist Letters and Novels
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4. Arguing in Verse: Abolitionist Poetry
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5. ‘Read This, and Blush’: The Pamphlet War of the 1780s
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6. Feeling Out Loud: Sentimental Rhetoric in Parliament, the Pulpit, and the Court of Law
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7. Conclusion: Romanticism, Revolution, and William Wilberforce’s Unregarded Tears
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Nyckelord: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, History of Britain and Ireland, Fiction