Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature: Captivity Genres from Cervantes to Rousseau

ISBN-13: 9781138291232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 338 str.

Mario Klarer

Opis

Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature, is a collection of selected essays which brings to light the literary transformations of the captivity experience in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media, including works by Cervantes, de Vega, Defoe, Rousseau, Mozart, and Droste.Where most studies of slavery, until now, have been limited to historial and autobiographical accounts, this mongraph look speicifically at the treatment of literary texts that touch upon on the subject, and does so from a multicutlural perspective.

O autorze

Mario Klarer is Professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck.