Tim Armstrong

The Logic of Slavery

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Produktbeschreibung

This book meditates on the conceptual underpinnings of slavery and investigates its impact on other areas of Western culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781107607811
• ISBN-10: 1107607817
• Artikelnr.: 36028400

Autorenporträt

Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. He previously taught at University College London, University College Cork and the University of Sheffield. He is author of Modernism, Technology and the Body: A Cultural Study (1998), Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (2000) and Modernism: A Cultural History (2005). He is editor of American Bodies (1996) and Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (1993, 2009), and co-editor of Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics (1994).

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Slavery, insurance, and sacrifice: the embodiment of capital
2. Debt, self-redemption, and foreclosure
3. Machines inside the machine: slavery and technology
4. The hands of others: sculpture and pain
5. The sonic veil
6. Slavery in the mind: trauma and the weather
Notes
Index.