Dark Victorians /Vanessa D. Dickerson.
Dickerson, Vanessa D., 1955-
Dark Victorians /Vanessa D. Dickerson. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Crossing the Big Water between White Victorians and Black Americans -- 1. On Coming to America: The British Subject and the African American Slave -- 2. Hail Britannia: African Americans Abroad in Victorian England -- 3. Thomas Carlyle: Case Study of a Dark Victorian -- 4. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Victorian Soul of Black Folk -- Conclusion: Reconsidering Victorian Britain and African America -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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.
9780252090981
2019718409
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963 --Political and social views.
African Americans--Relations with British--History.
African Americans--History--Great Britain--19th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
African Americans--Attitudes--History--19th century.
British--Attitudes--History--19th century.
Transnationalism.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .D375 2008
Dark Victorians /Vanessa D. Dickerson. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Crossing the Big Water between White Victorians and Black Americans -- 1. On Coming to America: The British Subject and the African American Slave -- 2. Hail Britannia: African Americans Abroad in Victorian England -- 3. Thomas Carlyle: Case Study of a Dark Victorian -- 4. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Victorian Soul of Black Folk -- Conclusion: Reconsidering Victorian Britain and African America -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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.
9780252090981
2019718409
Du Bois, W. E. B. 1868-1963 --Political and social views.
African Americans--Relations with British--History.
African Americans--History--Great Britain--19th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.
African Americans--Attitudes--History--19th century.
British--Attitudes--History--19th century.
Transnationalism.
Electronic Books.
E185 / .D375 2008