Mastery And Slavery In Victorian Writing

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Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing

Author : J. Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554733
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing written by J. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Hegel's famous " Master-Slave Dialectic " as its starting point, this wide-ranging book examines portrayals of masters, slaves and servants in works by Carlyle, Dickens, Eliot, Collins and others. The questions raised about modern mastery and slavery are pursued in relation to intriguing nineteenth-century figures as the American slave-holder, the musician, the demagogue and the Jew.

The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel

Author : Julia Sun-Joo Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199745289
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel written by Julia Sun-Joo Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conceived as a literary form to aggressively publicize the abolitionist cause in the United States, the African American slave narrative remains a powerful and illuminating demonstration of America's dark history. Yet the genre's impact extended far beyond the borders of the U.S. In a period when few books sold more than five hundred copies, slave narratives sold in the tens of thousands, providing British readers vivid accounts of the violence and privation experienced by American slaves. Eloquent, bracing narratives by Frederick Douglass, William Box Brown, Solomon Northrop, and others enjoyed unprecedented popularity, captivating audiences that included activists, journalists, and some of the era's greatest novelists. 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 book argues that Charlotte Bront?, W. M. Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, and Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson integrated into their works generic elements of the slave narrative-from the emphasis on literacy as a tool of liberation, to the teleological journey from slavery to freedom, to the ethics of resistance over submission. It contends that Victorian novelists used these tropes in an attempt to access the slave narrative's paradigm of resistance, illuminate the transnational dimension of slavery, and articulate Britain's role in the global community. Through a deft use of disparate sources, Lee reveals how 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. Lucidly written, richly researched, and cogently argued, Julia Sun-Joo Lee's insightful monograph makes an invaluable contribution to scholars of American literary history, African American literature, and the Victorian novel, in addition to highlighting the vibrant transatlantic exchange of ideas that illuminated literatures on both sides of the Atlantic during the nineteenth century.

Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930

Author : Jonathan Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030114139
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930 written by Jonathan Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 investigates the strange, complex, even paradoxical relationship between laughter, on the one hand, and violence, war, horror, death, on the other. It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield – texts which explore the far reaches of Schadenfreude, and so-called ‘superiority theories’ of laughter, pushing these theories to breaking point. In these literary texts, the violent superiority often ascribed to laughter is seen as radically unstable, co-existing with its opposite: an anarchic sense of equality. Laughter, humour and comedy are slippery, duplicitous, ambivalent, self-contradictory hybrids, fusing apparently discordant elements. Now and then, though, literary and philosophical texts also dream of a different kind of laughter, one which reaches beyond its alloys – a transcendent, ‘perfect’ laughter which exists only in and for itself.

Menials

Author : Kristina Booker
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611488648
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Menials written by Kristina Booker and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menials argues that British writers of the long-eighteenth century projected their era’s economic and social anxieties onto domestic servants. Confronting the emergence of controversial principles like self-interest, emulation, and luxury, writers from Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray used literary servants to critique what they saw as problematic economic and social practices. A cultural history of economic ideology as well as a literary history of domestic service, Menials traces the role of the domestic servant as a representation of the relationship between the master’s ideal self and the cultural forces that threaten it.

George Du Maurier: Illustrator, Author, Critic

Author : Simon Cooke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317128672
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book George Du Maurier: Illustrator, Author, Critic written by Simon Cooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though well-known as the author of Trilby and the creator of Svengali, the writer-artist George Du Maurier had many other accomplishments that are less familiar to modern audiences. This collection traces Du Maurier’s role as a participant in the wider cultural life of his time, restoring him to his proper status as a major Victorian figure. Divided into sections, the volume considers Du Maurier as an artist, illustrator and novelist who helped to form some of the key ideas of his time. The contributors place his life and work in the context of his treatment of Judaism and Jewishness; his fascination with urbanization, Victorian science, technology and clairvoyance; his friendships and influences; and his impact on notions of consumerism and taste. As an illustrator, Du Maurier collaborated with Thomas Hardy, Elizabeth Gaskell and sensational writers such as M. E. Braddon and the author of The Notting Hill Mystery. These partnerships, along with his reflections on the art of illustration, are considered in detail. Impossible to categorize, Du Maurier was an Anglo-Frenchman with cultural linkages in France, England, and America; a social commentator with an interest in The New Woman; a Punch humourist; and a friend of Henry James, with whom he shared a particular interest in the writing of domesticity and domestic settings. Closing with a consideration of Du Maurier’s after-life, notably the treatment of his work in film, this collection highlights his diverse achievements and makes a case for his enduring significance.

The portrayal of slavery in 19th century British literature. Mary Prince’s self depiction in "The History Of Mary Prince" and Edgeworth’s depiction of "Caesar" in "The Grateful Negro"

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Author : Fabian Zschiesche
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668477698
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The portrayal of slavery in 19th century British literature. Mary Prince’s self depiction in "The History Of Mary Prince" and Edgeworth’s depiction of "Caesar" in "The Grateful Negro" written by Fabian Zschiesche and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, language: English, abstract: Although the British participation in the triangle of slavery is clearly evident, the number of publications on abolitionist texts could not compete with those being published by American authors. But the British were the first to abolish slavery officially in 1807 and therefore it appears to be appropriate looking at British abolitionist texts more closely. Many British narrations on slaves have a protagonist who should appeal to the readership in a positive way by depicting him in very "European" style which means to ascribe several positive features to him as looking European, being educated and civilized and so on. Those created texts can of course only give a very limited insight into the life of an African slave, whereas an account as given by Mary Prince for instance claims its status of being authentic. Therefore I will take a closer look at her narration with respect to her self-depiction, especially the way her role as female slave is portrayed and to what extent physical abuse and ill-treatment plays a crucial role within her story and within the system of slavery as such. Furthermore I will briefly analyze Pringle’s role as editor of the text and how far he has influenced the authenticity of Prince’s narration. In order to show some contrastive writing, I will examine the role of Edgeworth’s "grateful negro" and whether her fictional writing can be considered an abolitionist piece of literature or not.

Master Slave Husband Wife

Author : Ilyon Woo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501191063
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Master Slave Husband Wife written by Ilyon Woo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1848, a young enslaved couple named Ellen and William Craft traveled openly by rail, coach and steamship from Macon, Georgia, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ellen, who passed for white, disguised herself as a wealthy disabled man, with William as "his" slave. Woo follows their journey north, and in joining the abolitionist lecture circuit. When the new Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 put them at risk, they fled from the United States. Their very existence challenged the nation's core precepts of life, liberty, and justice for all. -- Adapted from jacket.

Fictions of Autonomy

Author : Andrew Goldstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199861129
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Fictions of Autonomy written by Andrew Goldstone and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictions of Autonomy presents a revisionary account of aesthetic autonomy and transnational modernism with a range of readings that includes works by Wilde, Eliot, Joyce, Barnes, and Stevens alongside writings by theorists like Adorno and de Man.

American Slaves in Victorian England

Author : Audrey A. Fisch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521660266
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book American Slaves in Victorian England written by Audrey A. Fisch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audrey Fisch's study examines the circulation within England of the people and ideas of the black Abolitionist campaign. By focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anonymous sequel to that novel, Uncle Tom in England, and John Brown's Slave Life in Georgia, and the lecture tours of free blacks and ex-slaves, Fisch follows the discourse of American abolitionism as it moved across the Atlantic and was reshaped by domestic Victorian debates about popular culture and taste, the worker versus the slave, popular education, and working class self-improvement.

Victorian Ethical Optics

Author : Natalie Prizel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192888560
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Ethical Optics written by Natalie Prizel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the way that characters and figures in Victorian literature and visual art encountered and observed the bodies of others, particularly those bodies which were aberrant, deformed, and disabled.

Key Concepts in Victorian Literature

Author : Sean Purchase
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350310387
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in Victorian Literature written by Sean Purchase and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Concepts in Victorian Literature is a lively, clear and accessible resource for anyone interested in Victorian literature. It contains major facts, ideas and contemporary literary theories, is packed with close and detailed readings and offers an overview of the historical and cultural context in which this literature was produced.

Approaching Apocalypse

Author : Kevin Mills
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756270
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Approaching Apocalypse written by Kevin Mills and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written for scholars and students at both the graduate and undergraduate levels with an interest in modern literary studies, this book will also appeal to anyone interested in the Victorian era, biblical studies, the history of ideas, literature and myth, and theology."--BOOK JACKET.

The Ideas in Things

Author : Elaine Freedgood
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226261638
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Ideas in Things written by Elaine Freedgood and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an analysis of nineteenth-century English fiction, focusing on objects found in three Victorian novels, arguing that these items have meanings the modern reader does not understand, but were clear to the Victorian reader.

Nineteenth-century Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-century Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sound of Culture

Author : Louis Chude-Sokei
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 081957578X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Culture written by Louis Chude-Sokei and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sound of Culture explores the histories of race and technology in a world made by slavery, colonialism, and industrialization. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and moving through to the twenty-first, the book argues for the dependent nature of those histories. Looking at American, British, and Caribbean literature, it distills a diverse range of subject matter: minstrelsy, Victorian science fiction, cybertheory, and artificial intelligence. All of these facets, according to Louis Chude-Sokei, are part of a history in which music has been central to the equation that links blacks and machines. As Chude-Sokei shows, science fiction itself has roots in racial anxieties and he traces those anxieties across two centuries and a range of writers and thinkers—from Samuel Butler, Herman Melville, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to Sigmund Freud, William Gibson, and Donna Haraway, to Norbert Weiner, Sylvia Wynter, and Samuel R. Delany.

Reaping Something New

Author : Daniel Hack
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691169454
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Reaping Something New written by Daniel Hack and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their own Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative ways than previously suspected. From reprinting and reframing "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in an antislavery newspaper to reimagining David Copperfield and Jane Eyre as mixed-race youths in the antebellum South, writers and editors transposed and transformed works by the leading British writers of the day to depict the lives of African Americans and advance their causes. Central figures in African American literary and intellectual history—including Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, and W.E.B. Du Bois—leveraged Victorian literature and this history of engagement itself to claim a distinctive voice and construct their own literary tradition. In bringing these transatlantic transfigurations to light, this book also provides strikingly new perspectives on both canonical and little-read works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, and other Victorian authors. The recovery of these works' African American afterlives illuminates their formal practices and ideological commitments, and forces a reassessment of their cultural impact and political potential. Bridging the gap between African American and Victorian literary studies, Reaping Something New changes our understanding of both fields and rewrites an important chapter of literary history.

Making Men

Author : Belinda Edmondson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822322634
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Making Men written by Belinda Edmondson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked--and relocated--to the United States. Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon--as represented by C. L. R. James and V. S. Naipaul, among others--and contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States. Discussing the canonical Caribbean narrative as it reflects national identity under the domination of English cultural authority, Belinda Edmondson focuses particularly on the pervasive influence of Victorian sensibilities in the structuring of twentieth-century national identity. She shows that issues of race and English constructions of masculinity not only are central to West Indian identity but also connect Caribbean authorship to the English literary tradition. This perspective on the origins of West Indian literary nationalism then informs Edmondson's search for female subjectivity in current literature by West Indian women immigrants in America. Making Men compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women and exploring how the latter write within and against the historical male paradigm in the continuing process of national definition. With theoretical claims that invite new discourse on English, Caribbean, and American ideas of exile, migration, race, gender identity, and literary authority, Making Men will be informative reading for those involved with postcolonial theory, African American and women's studies, and Caribbean literature.