Clotel

ISBN-13: 9781554812899 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 250 str.

William Wells Brown; Geoffrey Sanborn

Opis

Geoffrey Sanborn's edition of Clotel highlights the complexity of the novel's composition and its place in 19th-century print and performance culture.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
William Wells Brown: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Clotel; or, The President’s Daughter

Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews

1. “Clotel,” Hereford Times (17 December 1853)
2. “Clotel,” Pennsylvania Freeman (29 December 1853)
3. “W.W. Brown’s New Work,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (31 December 1853)
4. “Clotel,” Anti-Slavery Advocate (January 1854)
5. “Clotel,” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine 21 (January 1854)
6. “Clotel,” Bristol Mercury (28 January 1854)
7. [William Lloyd Garrison,] “New Work by William Wells Brown,” Liberator (3 February 1854)

Appendix B: Slave-Auction Scenes

1. From [William Lloyd Garrison,] “A Scene at New Orleans,” Liberator (21 September 1838)
2. H.S.D., “An Auction,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (20 March 1845)
3. “Slave Auction Scene,” Anti-Slavery Reporter (1 December 1846)
4. From “The Case of Two Slave Girls,” Christian Watchman (2 November 1848)
5. From “Visit to a Slave Auction,” Frederick Douglass' Paper (2 February 1855)

Appendix C: The Aesthetic of Attractions

1. From [Gamaliel Bailey,] “Popular Amusements in New York” National Era (15 April 1847)
2. “Mechanical Museum—Lafayette Bazaar,” New York Evening Post (22 December 1847)
3. From “Banvard’s Panorama of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers,” Illustrated London News (9 December 1848)
4. From George Washington Bungay, Crayon Sketches and Off-Hand Takings (1852)

Appendix D: Brown and His Audiences

1. From “The Anniversaries,” New York Herald (9 May 1849)
2. From “Address from W.W. Brown, an Escaped Slave,” Norfolk News (4 May 1850)
3. From “Third Anniversary of the New York Anti-Slavery Society,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (16 May 1856)
4. From “Speech of William Wells Brown,” National Anti-Slavery Standard (26 May 1860)

Appendix E: Plagiarism

1. From [James Frederick Ferrier,] “The Plagiarisms of S.T. Coleridge,” Blackwood’s Magazine 47 (March 1840)
2. From “Plagiarism,” New-York Mirror (15 January 1842)
3. Untitled article, Caledonian Mercury (18 November 1852)
4. From untitled article, London Times (22 November 1852)
5. From “Stop Thief!” Fife Herald (25 November 1852)
6. From William Wells Brown, “Letter from William W. Brown,” Frederick Douglass’ Paper (10 June 1853)
7. From Thomas Montgomery, Literary Societies, Their Uses and Abuses (1853)
8. From “Plagiarism: Especially That of Coleridge,” Eclectic Magazine 32 (August 1854)

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