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Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature
Daniel Hack
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Description for Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature
Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 31. Weight in Grams: 632.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
631g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691169453
SKU
V9780691169453
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About Daniel Hack
Daniel Hack is associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Material Interests of the Victorian Novel.
Reviews for Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature
[F]ascinating and original... Hack's skill and sensitivity as a literary critic and the thoroughness of his research make Reaping Something New one of the most compelling works of trans-Atlantic literary scholarship to appear in recent years.
Joseph Rezek, Chronicle of Higher Education As Hack observes, the relationship between Victorian literature and African American literature has been neglected, and this ... Read more
Joseph Rezek, Chronicle of Higher Education As Hack observes, the relationship between Victorian literature and African American literature has been neglected, and this ... Read more