Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies

by Helen Thomas

2021-01-09 23:24:42

Helen Thomas'' study opens a new avenue for Romanticism by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic tex... Read more
Helen Thomas'' study opens a new avenue for Romanticism by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to writings of the African diaspora, she investigates English literary Romanticism in the context of a transatlantic culture, and African culture in the context of eighteenth-century Britain. In so doing, she reveals an intertextual dialogue between two diverse yet equally rich cultural spheres, and their corresponding systems of thought, epistemology and expression. Less

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File size9.02 X 5.98 X 0.79 in
Print pages348
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date August 5, 2004
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521604567
Helen Thomas is the dean of the White House press corps. The recipient of more than forty honorary degrees, she was honored in 1998 with the inaugural Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award, establi...

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