Julia Sun-Joo Lee

The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel

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Produktbeschreibung

The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel investigates the shaping influence of the American slave narrative on the Victorian novel in the years between the British Abolition Act and the American Emancipation Proclamation. The slave narrative becomes part of the textual network of the English novel, making visible how black literary, as well as economic, production contributed to English culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 166mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 469g
• ISBN-13: 9780195390322
• ISBN-10: 0195390326
• Artikelnr.: 30361647

Autorenporträt

Julia Sun-Joo Lee is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University and a Fellow at the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
1.: The Slave Narrative of Jane Eyre
2.: . Slaves and Brothers in Pendennis
3.: Female Slave Narratives: "The Grey Woman" and My Lady Ludlow
4.: The Return of the "Unnative": North and South
5.: Fugitive Plots in Great Expectations
Epilogue. The Plot Against England: The Dynamiter
Works Cited