Plagiarama! - William Wells Brown and the Aesthetic of Attractions

Offers a novel reading of the abolitionist writer's plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of capitalizing on the energies of mass-cultural entertainments popularized by showmen such as P. T. Barnum.

Summary

Offers a novel reading of the abolitionist writer's plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of capitalizing on the energies of mass-cultural entertainments popularized by showmen such as P. T. Barnum.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Sanborn, Sanborn Geoffrey
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780231174435
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17443-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people