Lynn Festa

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lynn Festa is involved.

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Festa, Lynn 2024 Chapter 1. Slavery, sentimentality and the abolition of affect A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. 18–33 | Chapter

This essay addresses the way details about the unspeakable conditions on the slave ships interrupt the sentimentalization of the plight of the enslaved in order to examine the political volatility of affect — in particular, disgust — in the late eighteenth-century metropolitan debates over the… read more