Fire on the Water : Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 /

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"This book 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. The book centers on four black sailors, whose experi...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Warren, Lenora (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, 2018.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Abolitionists in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
Slave insurrections in literature.
Slavery in literature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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 Cinque, 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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