After years of debate, the British parliament voted to end its participation in the slave trade and abolish slavery in its lands. Swaminathan, of Long Island University, traces the history of the deba
In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term a€?slaverya€? to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary repre
This collection explores how film and television depict the complex and diverse milieu of the eighteenth century as a literary, historical, and cultural space. Topics range from adaptations of Austen’
