From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology, Part 1This is the first of two anthologies designed to accompany the Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism, an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and siginficance of the sources.Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than provide reassuring answers and offer insights into the major events, movements and personaities of the time. |
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I could expatiate at great length on the inhumanity and cruelty of the West - India
planters , were I not fearful that I should become wearisome on so notorious a
subject . My brother , ANDREW COLVILE , is a tolerable specimen of them , as
may ...
I could expatiate at great length on the inhumanity and cruelty of the West - India
planters , were I not fearful that I should become wearisome on so notorious a
subject . My brother , ANDREW COLVILE , is a tolerable specimen of them , as
may ...
Page 203
Extract 9 The history of Mary Prince , a West Indian slave ( Related by herself ) I
was born at Brackish - Pond , in Bermuda , on a farm belonging to Mr Charles
Myners . My mother was a household slave ; and my father , whose name was ...
Extract 9 The history of Mary Prince , a West Indian slave ( Related by herself ) I
was born at Brackish - Pond , in Bermuda , on a farm belonging to Mr Charles
Myners . My mother was a household slave ; and my father , whose name was ...
Page 298
It is not unworthy of remark , that many of the Africans in their own country are
raised , by not being altogether illiterate , far above the low level to which the
entire want of all education depresses the field slaves in the West Indies . It is
stated by ...
It is not unworthy of remark , that many of the Africans in their own country are
raised , by not being altogether illiterate , far above the low level to which the
entire want of all education depresses the field slaves in the West Indies . It is
stated by ...
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Contents
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni | 3 |
Faith and death in the late Enlightenment | 17 |
David Hume Of Suicide | 24 |
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