TY  - GEN
T1  - Reaping something new : African American transformations of Victorian literature
T2  - Princeton scholarship online.
A1  - Hack, Daniel, 1965-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn960977047
AB  - 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
OP  - 284
CN  - PS153.N5
SN  - 9781400883745
SN  - 1400883741
SN  - 9780691169453
SN  - 0691169454
KW  - American literature : African American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - English literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - American literature : 19th century : History and criticism.
KW  - American literature : English influences.
KW  - African Americans : Intellectual life.
KW  - African Americans in literature.
KW  - Race in literature.
KW  - Slavery in literature.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature américaine : 19e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Noirs américains : Vie intellectuelle.
KW  - Noirs américains dans la littérature.
KW  - Race dans la littérature.
KW  - Esclavage dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : African American.
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Race in literature
KW  - English literature
KW  - American literature : English influences
KW  - American literature : African American authors
KW  - American literature
KW  - African Americans : Intellectual life
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Schriftsteller
KW  - Schwarze
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - USA
KW  - Esclavage : Abolition : Dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature américaine : Auteurs noirs américains : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature anglaise : 19e siècle : Influence.
KW  - Écrivains noirs américains : 19e siècle.
KW  - Écrivains noirs américains : 20e siècle.
KW  - Esclavage : Abolition.
KW  - 19e siecle.
KW  - Appropriation (art)
KW  - Litterature anglaise.
KW  - Litterature americaine.
KW  - Écrivains noirs americains.
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - Auteurs noirs américains.
ER  -