Enslavement and emancipation / [print]
edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; volume editor, Blake Hobby.
- New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, (c)2010.
- xvi, 288 pages ; 25 cm.
- Bloom's literary themes .
- Bloom's literary themes. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Volume Introduction The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain). The Paradox of Liberation in Huckleberry Finn Beloved (Toni Morrison). Beloved and the Transforming Power of the Word The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy). The Death and Emancipation of Ivan Ilych The Declaration of Indepence (Thomas Jefferson). Thomas Jefferson and the Great Declaration The Book of Exodus. Exodus The Poetry of Langston Hughes. Racial Individuality: Enslavement and Emancipation in the Poetry of Langston Hughes Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs). Moral Experience in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 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 In the Penal Colony (Franz Kafka). Enslavement and Emancipation in Franz Kafka's In the Penal Colony The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln the Literary Genius A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a Slave (Frederick Douglass). The Slave 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 Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe). Enslavement and Emancipation in Robinson Crusoe A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf). Images of Enslavement and Emancipation in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse). The Search for Emancipation in Herman Hesse's Siddhartha Tempest (William Shakespeare). --with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury, Do I take part: Enslavement and Emancipation in Shakespeare's Tempest A Vindication of the Rights of Women and Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller). Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft Visions of the Daughters of Albion (William Blake). Blake's Vision of Slavery The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley. Emancipating Phillis Wheatley The Novels of Elie Wiesel. Witness to the Absurd: Elie Wiesel and the French Existentialists by Harold Bloom -- by Neil Schmitz, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language (1971) -- by Louise Cowan, in Classic Texts and the Nature of Authority (1993) -- by Merritt Moseley -- by Moses Coit Tyler, in The Literary History of the American Revolution, 1763-1783 (1897) -- by Allen Dwight Callahan, in Talking Book: African Americans and the Bible (2006) -- by Robert C. Evans -- by Sarah Way Sherman, in NWSA Journal (1990) -- by Mary Wollstonecraft, in Analytical Review (1789) -- by Lorena Russell -- by Jacques Barzun, in The Saturday Evening Post (1959) -- by Frederic May Holland, in Frederick Douglass: The Colored Orator (1891) -- by John Becker -- by Luca Prono -- by Deborah C. Solomon -- by H. Elizabeth Smith -- by Robert C. Evans -- by George Eliot, in Leader (1855) -- by David Erdman, in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes (1952) -- by Deborah James -- by Mary Jean Green, in Renascence (1977).
A literary expose' exploring the writings about slavery.