TY - BOOK AU - Dickerson,Vanessa D. TI - Dark Victorians /Vanessa D. Dickerson SN - 9780252090981 AV - E185 .D375 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press KW - Du Bois, W. E. B. KW - African Americans KW - Relations with British KW - History KW - Great Britain KW - 19th century KW - Intellectual life KW - Attitudes KW - British KW - Transnationalism KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=569949&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -