Fire on the Water - Sailors, Slaves, Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789

Zusammenfassung Tells the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences either inspired or found resonance within fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Warren, Lenora Warren
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781684480180
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-018-0
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research