Enslavement and emancipation / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

Volume Introduction by Harold Bloom -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain). The Paradox of Liberation in Huckleberry Finn by Neil Schmitz, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language (1971) -- Beloved (Toni Morrison). Beloved and the Transforming Power of the Word by Louise Cowan, in Classic Texts and the Nature of Authority (1993) -- The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy). The Death and Emancipation of Ivan Ilych by Merritt Moseley -- The Declaration of Indepence (Thomas Jefferson). Thomas Jefferson and the Great Declaration by Moses Coit Tyler, in The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783 (1897) -- The Book of Exodus. Exodus by Allen Dwight Callahan, in Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible (2006) -- The Poetry of Langston Hughes. Racial Individuality: Enslavement and Emancipation in the Poetry of Langston Hughes by Robert C. Evans -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs). Moral Experience in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Sarah Way Sherman, in NWSA Journal (1990) -- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (Olaudah Equiano). Review of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself by Mary Wollstonecraft, in Analytical Review (1789) -- In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka). Enslavement and Emancipation in Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony by Lorena Russell -- The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln the Literary Genius by Jacques Barzun, in The Saturday Evening Post (1959) -- A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a Slave (Frederick Douglass). The Slave by Frederic May Holland, in Frederick Douglass: The Colored Orator (1891) -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn). Art isn't what you do, it's how you do it: Enslavement, Ideology, and Emancipation in Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by John Becker -- Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe). Enslavement and Emancipation in Robinson Crusoe by Luca Prono -- A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf). Images of Enslavement and Emancipation in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own by Deborah C. Solomon -- Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse). The Search for Emancipation in Herman Hesse's Siddhartha by H. Elizabeth Smith -- Tempest (William Shakespeare). --with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury, Do I take part: Enslavement and Emancipation in Shakespeare's Tempest by Robert C. Evans -- A Vindication of the Rights of Women and Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller). Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft by George Eliot, in Leader (1855) -- Visions of the Daughters of Albion (William Blake). Blake's Vision of Slavery by David Erdman, in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (1952) -- The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley. Emancipating Phillis Wheatley by Deborah James -- The Novels of Elie Wiesel. Witness to the Absurd: Elie Wiesel and the French Existentialists by Mary Jean Green, in Renascence (1977).

A literary expose' exploring the writings about slavery.

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