Reaping something new : African American transformations of Victorian literature /
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 imaginati...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press
[2017]
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| Collection: | Princeton scholarship online.
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77805 |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: The African Americanization of Victorian literature
- Close reading Bleak House at a distance
- (Re- )racializing "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
- Affiliating with George Eliot
- Racial mixing and textual remixing: Charles Chesnutt
- Cultural transmission and transgression: Pauline Hopkins
- The citational soul of Black folk: W.E.B. Du Bois
- Afterword: After Du Bois
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index