Reaping Something New (eBook)

African American Transformations of Victorian Literature

Daniel Hack (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF | EPUB

2016
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8374-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Daniel Hack is professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel.

---

How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their ownTackling 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 "e;The Charge of the Light Brigade"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 12 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • African-American Literature • African Americans • afterword • Alan Sinfield • Alfred, Lord Tennyson • Allegory • Allusion • A Plea for Captain John Brown • author • Bildungsroman • Bleak House • British Literature • British Poetry • Charles Dickens • Charles W. Chesnutt • chivalry • Close reading • Clotel • colored • Cosmopolitanism • Criticism • Daniel Deronda • Dante Gabriel Rossetti • elizabeth barrett browning • english poetry • Epigraph (literature) • evocation • Fiction • Frances Harper • Generosity • Genre • George Eliot • Haitian Revolution • Hannah Crafts • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Henry David Thoreau • Henry Louis Gates Jr. • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Intertextuality • Iola Leroy • Irony • Jessie Redmon Fauset • john greenleaf whittier • Julia Griffiths • Lecture • Literary criticism • Literature • Locksley Hall • margaret oliphant • Mary Church Terrell • Mr. • Mrs. • mulatto • Narration • narrative • newspaper • Novel • novelist • Of One Blood (novel) • Parody • Pauline Hopkins • paul laurence dunbar • phillis wheatley • plagiarism • Poet Laureate • Poetry • Print Culture • Prose • Protagonist • Pseudonym • Publication • Quotation mark • Racial Equality • Racism • rhetorical question • sartor resartus • S. (Dorst novel) • Slave name • Slavery • stanza • Superiority (short story) • The Blessed Damozel • The Bondwoman's Narrative • The Heroic Slave • the mill on the floss • The Other Hand • The Sellout (book) • the souls of black folk • The Spanish Gypsy • The Wife of His Youth • Thomas Carlyle • Tragic mulatto • Victorian Era • Victorian Literature • Walter Benn Michaels • W. E. B. Du Bois • William Wells Brown • Writer • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8374-1 / 1400883741
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8374-5 / 9781400883745