Romanticism and Slave Narratives: Transatlantic Testimonies

by Helen Thomas

Book Overview

Helen Thomas's study opens a new avenue for Romantic literary studies by exploring connections with literature produced by slaves, slave owners, abolitionists and radical dissenters between 1770 and 1830. In the first major attempt to relate canonical Romantic texts to the writings of the African diaspora, she investigates English literary Romanticism in the context of a transatlantic culture, and African culture in the context of eighteenth-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521604567
• ISBN13: 9780521604567
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"