My Bondage and My Freedom - Norton Critical Edition

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

• Nick Bromell and R. Blakeslee Gilpin's introduction to Frederick Douglass's second autobiography, providing the deep contextualisation teachers want and students need.


• The first edition text (1855), accompanied by the editors' detailed explanatory footnotes.


• Twelve contemporary works that relate to My Bondage and My Freedom, including writings by Frederick Douglass, Benjamin Franklin, William Lloyd Garrison, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Jacobs.


• Nineteen critical assessments of My Bondage and My Freedom-nine contemporary and ten recent interpretations-to inspire classroom discussion and research topics across the curriculum


• A chronology of Frederick Douglass's life and work and a selected bibliography.

 

About the author

NICK BROMELL is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of By the Sweat of the Brow: Labor and Literature in Antebellum America and The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of U.S. Democracy. His articles and essays on Frederick Douglass and African American political thought have appeared in American Literary History, The American Scholar, and Political Theory.R. BLAKESLEE GILPIN is Assistant Professor of History at Tulane University. His first book, John Brown Still Lives!: America’s Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change, was a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Frederick Douglass Book Prize. With Rose Styron, Gilpin compiled and edited The Selected Letters of William Styron. His next book will be about Nat Turner, William Styron, and the longevity of slavery’s hold on America’s racial imagination.

Summary

"Nick Bromell and R. Blakeslee Gilpin have edited Frederick Douglass's iconic autobiography with great verve and insight. Coupled with some known as well as unknown documents, this edition of My Bondage and My Freedom will be of tremendo

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Douglass
• Assisted by: Nick Bromell (Editor), Nick (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Bromell (Editor), Bromell Nick (Editor), R Blakeslee Gilpin (Editor), R. Blakeslee Gilpin (Editor), R. Blakeslee (Tulane University) Gilpin (Editor), Gilpin R. Blakeslee (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780393923636
• ISBN: 978-0-393-92363-6
• Series: Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Relating to African American / Black American people