Cambridge Companion to Frederick Douglass

Informationen zum Autor Maurice S. Lee is Assistant Professor of English at Boston University. Klappentext An engaging and informative overview of the life and works of Frederick Douglass. Zusammenfassung This Companion! designed for students of American history! African-American studies and literature! includes perspectives from a range of disciplines. Key topics in Douglass studies and his individual works are covered in depth. Accessible in style! this book is both a lucid introduction and a contribution to existing scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Maurice S. Lee; 1. Douglass's self-making and the culture of abolitionism John Stauffer; 2. Identity in the autobiographies Robert S. Levine; 3. Douglass as orator and editor Sarah Meer; 4. Crisis and faith in Douglass's work John Ernest; 5. Violence, manhood, and war in Douglass Maurice O. Wallace; 6. Human law and higher law Gregg Crane; 7. Sentimental Douglass Arthur Riss; 8. Douglass among the Romantics Bill E. Lawson; 9. Douglass's Black Atlantic: Britain, Europe, Egypt Paul Giles; 10. Douglass's Black Atlantic: the Caribbean Ifeoma C. K. Nwankwo; 11. Douglass, ideological slavery, and postbellum racial politics Gene Andrew Jarrett; 12. Born in slavery: echoes and legacies Valerie Smith; Guide to further reading; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Maurice S Lee, Maurice S. Lee
• Mitarbeit: Maurice S. Lee (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 11.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521717878
• ISBN: 978-0-521-71787-8
• Abmessung: 153 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge companion
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Sachbuch