Erin Austin Dwyer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Erin Austin Dwyer is involved.
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2024 Chapter 9. “No one can imagine my feelings”: The rhetoric of race, slavery, and emotional difference in the antebellum South A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. 173–190 | Chapter
This chapter details the ideological foundations of the emotional norms of slavery and debates over whether those practices and feelings were tied to race or to slave status. It examines how theories of racialized emotional difference circulated, and the proslavery ramifications of those ideas,… read more
