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Dark Victorians /

Dark Victorians illuminates the cross-cultural influences between white Britons and black Americans during the Victorian age. In carefully analyzing literature and travel narratives by Ida B. Wells, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Carlyle, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, V...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dickerson, Vanessa D., 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Crossing the Big Water between White Victorians and Black Americans
  • 1. On Coming to America: The British Subject and the African American Slave
  • 2. Hail Britannia: African Americans Abroad in Victorian England
  • 3. Thomas Carlyle: Case Study of a Dark Victorian
  • 4. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Victorian Soul of Black Folk
  • Conclusion: Reconsidering Victorian Britain and African America
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index