Fire on the water : sailors, slaves, and insurrection in early American literature, 1789-1886 /

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"Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors,...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Warren, Lenora (Author)
Corporate Author: Bucknell University Press
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2019]
Series:Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:
1700-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Slave rebellions in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
Abolitionists in literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Révoltes d'esclaves dans la littérature.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes dans la littérature.
Abolitionnistes dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Abolitionists in literature
American literature
Antislavery movements in literature
English literature
Slave rebellions in literature
Slavery in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
  • 2. Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility
  • 3. Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny, and Revolutionary Whitewashing
  • 4. The Black and White Sailor: Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode
  • Coda.

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