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Dark Victorians /Vanessa D. Dickerson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2008.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252090981
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E185 .D375 2008
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Contents:
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
Subject: 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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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.

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