Carey, Brycchan (2020) Abolishing Cruelty: The Concurrent Growth of Antislavery and Animal Welfare Sentiment in British and Colonial Literature. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 43 (2). pp. 203-220. ISSN 1754-0194
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Abstract
This article argues that anti‐slavery and animal welfare writers actively and concurrently extended the boundaries of sympathy to promote an anti‐cruelty ethos that encompassed both suffering animals and suffering people and demanded that this shift in sensibilities be enshrined in legislation. It charts this from the 1680s to the 1770s in pamphlets and novels by Thomas Tryon, Sarah Scott, Humphrey Primatt and Laurence Sterne, before exploring parallel early nineteenth‐century debates over bull‐baiting and the abolition of slavery in texts by Thomas Day, Percival Stockdale and Elizabeth Heyrick.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | slavery, slave trade, abolitionism, anti-slavery, animals, bull-baiting, cruelty, sensibility |
| Subjects: | Q300 English studies V100 History by period V300 History by topic |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities |
| Depositing User: | Elena Carlaw |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2020 12:44 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2022 03:30 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41899 |
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