Robert (Hrsg.) Levine

Clotel

Or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States

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Clotel; or The President's Daughter (1853), the first published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a canonical text for courses in African American as well as nineteenth-century American literature courses. The story was inspired by the rumored sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and this edition of Clotel is the only one to reprint selections from the key texts and cultural documents that Brown drew on (and even appropriated) when he wrote his novel. The streamlined second edition includes an updated introduction that incorporates the explosion of scholarship on the novel over the pas… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-312-62107-0
EAN: 9780312621070
Produktnummer: 8251296
Verlag: Macmillan International Higher Education
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 448 S.
Masse: 1 Ex.; H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D0.0 cm 399 g
Auflage: 2. A.
Abbildungen: Book
Gewicht: 399
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

ROBERT S. LEVINE Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the editor of a number of volumes, including Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader and Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation.