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- Title
Droit du Seigneur, Slavery, and Nation in the Poetry of Edward Rushton.
- Authors
PIERROT, GRÉGORY
- Abstract
The article offers information on the work of poet Edward Rushton in several topics including Droit du Seigneur, the Atlantic slave trade, and nation. Topics discussed include his political and poetic trends, expressing abolitionist sentiment through the revived ancient form of the eclogue; depicts the elements typical of the rhetoric of sensibility developed in abolitionist poetry; and the sufferings of Sabine women and enslaved women, who were sexual abused by Rome's founder Romulus.
- Subjects
ATLANTIC Ocean Region; RUSHTON, Edward; JUS primae noctis; SLAVE trade; ABOLITIONISTS; RHETORIC; ROMULUS; HISTORY
- Publication
Studies in Romanticism, 2017, Vol 56, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
0039-3762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/srm.2017.0033