In 1789, before the abolition of slavery in Great Britain or the United States of America, poet William Blake quietly appealed to the public's sense of humanity in Songs of Innocence with the poem, "The Little Black Boy." In that same year, a former slave named Olaudah Equiano was catapulted to fame as a sympathetic face for the abolitionist movement with the publication of his autobiography. Olaudah Equiano became an internationally sought after public speaker and enjoyed the remarkable success of nine editions of his book within the five year span between 1789 and 1794, making him the wealthiest black man in the English-speaking world.Transatlantic Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Kamille Stone Stanton and Julie A. Chappell, contributes to that growing body of nuanced textual criticism seeking to prove that the progress of the anti-slavery movement was actually no single-authored sensation but rather part of a broader transatlantic discourse spanning the entirety of the long eighteenth century.
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Newcastle upon Tyne
Großbritannien
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Höhe: 212 mm
Breite: 148 mm
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978-1-4438-3288-5 (9781443832885)
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Kamille Stone Stanton received her PhD in Early Modern Women's Writing from the University of Leeds in 2006 and is a distance learning professor at Bellevue University. She is the author of many articles on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature, and her monograph Cavalier Women: The Politics of Restoration Women's Writing (AMS, 2013) is at press. With Julie Chappell, she has also edited Spectacle, Sex and Property in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (AMS, forthcoming 2013).Julie A. Chappell received her PhD in Medieval and Early Modern Literature from the University of Washington in 1989 and has been a member of the English faculty at Tarleton State University since 2000. She is the editor and translator of the The Prose Alexander of Robert Thornton (Peter Lang, 1992). With Kamille Stone Stanton, she has also edited Spectacle, Sex and Property in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (AMS, forthcoming 2013). Her monograph, Perilous Passages: The Book of Margery Kempe 1534-1934, is in progress.
