Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - A Norton Critical Edition

Frederick Douglass' 1845 Narrative is accompanied by a preface and explanatory footnotes. Included are contemporary perspectives, along with essays, a chronology and bibliography.

About the author

William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is general editor of Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography and The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology, and co-editor of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature and The Norton Anthology of African American Literature. Other works include the Norton Critical Edition of Up From Slavery; The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt; To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro- American Autobiography, 1760–1865; Sisters of the Spirit; The Curse of Caste by Julia C. Collins; Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave; and Slave Narratives after Slavery.William S. McFeely is Abraham Baldwin Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Yankee Stepfather: General O. O. Howard and the Freedmen; Grant: A Biography, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Parkman Prize; Frederick Douglass, which received the Lincoln Prize; Sapelo’s People: A Long Walk into Freedom; and Proximity to Death.

Summary

This revision of the acclaimed and widely-assigned Norton Critical Edition of Frederick Douglass’ autobiography includes key examples of literary and cultural analyses that have engaged scholars over the last three decades.

Product details

• Authors: William L. Andrews, Frederick Douglass, William S. McFeely
• Assisted by: William L. Andrews (Editor), William S. McFeely (Editor), McFeely William S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780393265446
• ISBN: 978-0-393-26544-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 213 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 222 g
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Biography / Autobiography, Classic fiction: general and literary