Dark Victorians

Dark Victorians

by Dickerson, Vanessa D.

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Dark Victorians illuminates the cross-cultural influences between white Britons and black Americans during the Victorian age. In carefully analyzing literature and travel narratives by Ida B. Wells, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Carlyle, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, Vanessa D. Dickerson reveals the profound political, racial, and rhetorical exchanges between the groups.--[Publisher description].

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  • Full title :Dark Victorians / Vanessa D. Dickerson.

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Dark Victorians illuminates the cross-cultural influences between white Britons and black Americans during the Victorian age. In carefully analyzing literature and travel narratives by Ida B. Wells, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Carlyle, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, Vanessa D. Dickerson reveals the profound political, racial, and rhetorical exchanges between the groups.--[Publisher description].

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2008.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:163 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780252032561, 025203256X
  • oclc:ocn163592995
  • LC Classification:E185.61
  • Dewey Decimal:305.800941

Table of Contents

Introduction : Crossing the big water between White Victorians and Black Americans -- On coming to America : the British subject and the African American slave -- Hail Britannia : African Americans abroad in Victorian England -- Thomas Carlyle : case study of a Dark Victorian -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the Victorian soul of Black folk -- Conclusion : Reconsidering Victorian Britain and African America.

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Subjects

African Americans African Americans -- Attitudes African Americans -- Attitudes -- 19th … African Americans -- History -- 19th ce… African Americans -- Intellectual life African Americans -- Intellectual life … African Americans -- Relations with Bri… Britanniques -- Attitudes -- 19e siècle British -- Attitudes British -- Attitudes -- 19th century Carlyle, Thomas Du Bois, W. E. B., (William Edward Burg… Du Bois, William E. B. Grande-Bretagne -- Vie intellectuelle -… Great Britain Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 1… Grossbritannien History Intellectual life Kulturbeziehungen

Writers

Dickerson, Vanessa D.

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