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Author Hack, Daniel, 1965- author.

Title Reaping something new : African American transformations of Victorian literature / Daniel Hack
Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 284 pages) : illustrations
Series Princeton scholarship online
Princeton scholarship online
Contents 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
Summary 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 their causes. Central figures in African American literary and intellectual history--including Frederick Douglass, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, and W.E.B. Du Bois--leveraged Victorian literature and this history of engagement itself to claim a distinctive voice and construct their own literary tradition. In bringing these transatlantic transfigurations to light, this book also provides strikingly new perspectives on both canonical and little-read works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Tennyson, and other Victorian authors. The recovery of these works' African American afterlives illuminates their formal practices and ideological commitments, and forces a reassessment of their cultural impact and political potential. Bridging the gap between African American and Victorian literary studies, Reaping Something New changes our understanding of both fields and rewrites an important chapter of literary history provider's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 22, 2021)
Subject American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- English influences.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Race in literature.
Slavery in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American.
Slavery in literature
Race in literature
English literature
American literature -- English influences
American literature -- African American authors
American literature
African Americans -- Intellectual life
African Americans in literature
Literatur
Rezeption
Schriftsteller
Schwarze
Esclavage -- Abolition -- Dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine -- Auteurs noirs américains -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Influence.
Écrivains noirs américains -- 19e siècle.
Écrivains noirs américains -- 20e siècle.
Esclavage -- Abolition.
19e siecle.
Appropriation (art)
Litterature anglaise.
Litterature americaine.
Écrivains noirs americains.
Großbritannien
USA
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Auteurs noirs américains.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400883745
1400883741