Looks that kill : Violence and representation in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko / Anne Fogarty -- Sex, slavery and rights in Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindications / Jane Moore -- "That mild beam" : Enlightenment and enslavement in William Blake's Visions of the daughters of Albion / Steven Vine -- "Silent revolt" : Slavery and the politics of metaphor in Jane Eyre / Carl Plasa -- Anglo-American connections : Elizabeth Gaskell, Harriet Beecher Stowe and the "Iron of slavery" / Elizabeth Jean Sabiston -- "Painting by numbers" : Figuring Frederick Douglass / Betty J. Ring -- Perilous passages in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Jon Hauss -- The irony of idealism : William Faulkner and the South's construction of the mulatto / David Lawrence Rogers -- Prophesying bodies : Calling for a politics of collectivity in Toni Morrison's Beloved / April Lidinsky.