...Lloyd Pratt This essay argues that in his autobiographies, journalism, and speeches, Frederick Douglass carved out a new version of humanism that broke with both the liberalism individualism of Jacksonian America and the anachronistic civic republicanism espoused by white abolitionists. In addition...

... a distinct temporality, albeit an imposed one, has also been advanced by black intellectuals, at least since Frederick Douglass's 1845 declaration that slaves “seldom come nearer” their birthdays than “planting-time, harvest-time, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time.” To adapt Heidegger in this context...

..., and slaves but goes so far as to consolidate the community it does imagine by means of their exclusion. I focus in particular on the reprinting of Bleak House in Frederick Douglass' Paper and its rewriting in, or as, The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited...

... fashion a contemporary Christian multicultural identity suitably cleansed of the complexity of what Frederick Douglass had earlier called “Christian slavery.” Gilead 's fashioning of a liberal Christian multiculturalism in response to the conservative evangelical and fundamentalist Christian resurgence...

...—Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter,” Herman Melville's “Benito Cereno,” and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave —revealed the incoherence of “literature” as it gradually assumed its modern form. efrank@wesleyan.edu Copyright © 2023 by Novel, Inc. 2023 novella Nathaniel Hawthorne...

.... The Oxford Frederick Douglass Reader . New York: Oxford UP, 1996 . Andrews , William . To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760–1865 . Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1988 . Appadurai , Arjun . “The Production of Locality.” Modernity at Large: Cultural...

... American literary genre called the slave narrative/autobiography, inevitably attacked prevailing convictions about race and the concomitant argument about the inherent illiter- acy of the black slave. One immediately sees this, for example, in Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave...

... of perception itself. Put simply, Delany's use of the technique makes his readers conscious of being excluded, but, unlike Douglass, Delany does not tell us why. What if, Delany asks, this is the way perception works? What if those networks, those plans for revolution, and the material for a Black sociality...

... on to discuss Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The Marble Faun (1860), and concludes with a discussion of antebellum slave narratives, particularly A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845). The book's close readings of these canonical novels...

..., 2003 . Cooper , Anna Julia . A Voice from the South . 1892. New York: Oxford UP, 1988 . Douglass , Frederick . My Bondage and My Freedom . Ed. Louis Gates Henry Jr. 1855. New York: Library of America, 1994 . Du Bois , W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk . Ed. Huggins...

... with this appointment, he agitated ceaselessly for a better one and was ultimately transferred to Glasgow. Frederick Douglass was US minister to Haiti, and James Weldon Johnson was US consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua. A similar list could be made of US artists—the consulship of Rome, for instance...

... racial ideology on itself. Reading closely the sexual assaults and myriad cruelties detailed in the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, Abdur-Rahman demonstrates how early black writers used the sexual perversions of white people, played out through the systematic abuse of black...

... of privacy that the home could never actually provide. In a range of important works (including Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," Douglass's "The Heroic Slave," Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, and Thoreau's Walden), Shamir reads the concern with private space in the home as one aspect...

... Cabin . Ed. Elizabeth Ammons and Susan Belasco. New York: MLA, 2000 . 120 –31. Levine , Robert S. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity . Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997 . Lewis , Barbara . “Daddy Blue: The Evolution of the Dark...

... debates over the place of feeling in women's sentimental fiction waged by Ann Douglass, Nina Baym, and Jane Tompkins (among many others), and to argue, forcefully, that the very terms through which literary sentimentalism has been debated “remain so frustratingly binding” (81): “But the problem...

... as antebellum texts like Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass or Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, as the antecedent texts to the neo-slave narrative tradition, but Toomer’s text serves its purpose well. The meat of this chapter is its analysis of how...

... was Frederick Douglass, whose daughter lived four hundred feet from Catharine James's home when Henry James lived with his grandmother in the 1840s. Douglass's daughter, Rosetta, stayed with two sisters, Lydia and Abigail Mott, who educated her from 1845 to 1848 ( Fought 64 ). Lydia ran a clothing store at 524...

... and Minors, several poems refer to specific historical events, concepts, and figures related to racial uplift. His poem, "Frederick Douglass," focuses on Douglass's heroic struggles to improve his race's lot. The speaker of another poem in Majors and Minors, "We Wear the Mask," suggests...

...).  SAMUEL OTTER is professor and chair of English at the University of California–Berkeley. He is the author of Melville’s Anatomies (1999) and Philadelphia Stories: America’s Literature of Race and Freedom (2010) and co-editor of Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation (2008...

...: British Literature in an Age of Mass Migration, 1660–1838.” jeffrey allen tucker is associate professor of English and director of the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at the University of Rochester. He is author of A Sense of Wonder: Samuel R. Delany, Race...