Travel Literature, Slavery and Colonisation, and William Blake’s Competing Modes of Perception
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Travel and Literature II Abstract:
In "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" Blake critiques travel narratives that justified slavery and colonisation by undermining the gaze of the colonial writer. Instead, Blake offers a competing vision depicting the horrors of European expansion and exploitation.
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