...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...

..., 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...

... 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...

...—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...

... them. Through the Frederick Hale subplot, Gaskell refuses basic tropes of political melodrama as they had emerged in the wake of the French Revolution: the villainy of the upper class; the persecuted innocence of a working-class, often female protagonist; the mistaken or misled judgment of social...

... 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...

...N. Katherine Hayles Works Cited Johnson John . Information Multiplicity: American Fiction in the Age of Media Saturation . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins UP , 1998 . Karl Frederick . American Fictions, 1980–2000: Whose America Is It Anyway? Philadelphia : Xlibris , 2001...

... 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...

... of Frederick Douglass's Narrative , where in two short sentences Douglass tells his reader that he successfully escaped from slavery, while leaving out nearly all the specifics: “[O]n the third day of September, 1838, I left my chains, and succeeded in reaching New York without the slightest interruption...

..., 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...

... , 2009 . Turner Frederick Jackson . “The Significance of the Frontier in American History.” Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner: The Significance of the Frontier in American History and Other Essays . Ed. Faragher John Mack . New Haven : Yale UP , 1999 . 31 – 60 . National...

... 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...

... 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...

...).  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...

... , S.A. Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers . 1855. 2nd ed. London: Frank Cass, 1970 . Crowther , S.A. Journals of the Rev. James Frederick Schön and Mr. Samuel Crowther . 1842. 2nd ed. London: Frank Cass, 1970 . Crowther , S.A. “The Narrative of Samuel...

.... Keating Peter. New York: Penguin Classics, 1977 . Goldsmith , Oliver . The Vicar of Wakefield and Other Writings . Ed. W. Hilles Frederick. New York: Modern Library, 1955 . Narratives of Survival Michal Peled Ginsburg Discussions of closure, which played...

... 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...