Abolition Poetry, National Identity, and Religion: The Case of Peter Newby's "The Wrongs of Almoona."
This essay offers information about "The Wrongs of Almoona," a historical narrative poem published in 1655 in Jamaica by Peter Newby. This narrative poem features the nature of abolitionist culture and its religious identity as a fractious element of an abolition movement that united Anglicans, nonc...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 25 - 44 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Spring2007
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| Sumario: | This essay offers information about "The Wrongs of Almoona," a historical narrative poem published in 1655 in Jamaica by Peter Newby. This narrative poem features the nature of abolitionist culture and its religious identity as a fractious element of an abolition movement that united Anglicans, nonconformist dissenters, and evangelicals. The author claimed that this literary work will help one understand the role of abolitionist anti-Catholicism in the national and imperial project. |
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