자료유형 | 단행본 |
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서명/저자사항 | Reaping Something New. |
개인저자 | Hack, Daniel. |
발행사항 | Princeton University Press, 2016. |
형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
기타형태 저록 | Original 9780691169453 0691169454 |
ISBN | 1400883741 9781400883745 |
서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index. |
내용주기 | Introduction: The African Americanization of Victorian literature -- Close reading Bleak House at a distance -- (Re-)racializing "The Charge of the Light Brigade" -- Affiliating with George Eliot -- Racial mixing and textual remixing: Charles Chesnutt -- Cultural transmission and transgression: Pauline Hopkins -- The citational soul of Black folk: W.E.B. Du Bois -- Afterword: After Du Bois -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
요약 | Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative ways than previously suspected. From reprinting and reframing "The Charge of the Light Brigade" in an antislavery newspaper to reimagining David Copperfield and Jane Eyre as mixed-race youths in the antebellum South, writers and editors transposed and transformed works by the leading British writers of the day to depict the lives of African Americans and advance their causes. Central figures in African American literary and intellectual history--including Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, and W.E.B. Du Bois--leveraged Victorian literature and this history of engagement itself to claim a distinctive voice and construct their own literary tradition. In bringing these transatlantic transfigurations to light, this book also provides strikingly new perspectives on both canonical and little-read works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, and other Victorian authors. The recovery of these works' African American afterlives illuminates their formal practices and ideological commitments, and forces a reassessment of their cultural impact and political potential. Bridging the gap between African American and Victorian literary studies, Reaping Something New changes our understanding of both fields and rewrites an important chapter of literary history. |
주제명(지명) | Gro횩britannien --gnd USA. --gnd |
일반주제명 | American literature --African American authors --History and criticism. African American authors. English literature --19th century --History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General African American authors. American literature --African American authors. English literature. Literatur Rezeption Schriftsteller Schwarze. Esclavage --Abolition --Dans la litte?rature. Litte?rature ame?ricaine --Auteurs noirs ame?ricains --Histoire et critique. Litte?rature anglaise --19e sie?cle --Influence. E?crivains noirs ame?ricains --19e sie?cle. E?crivains noirs ame?ricains --20e sie?cle. |
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