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OverviewClotel; or The President's Daughter (1853), the first published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a canonical text for courses in African American as well as nineteenth-century American literature courses. The story was inspired by the rumored sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and this edition of Clotel is the only one to reprint selections from the key texts and cultural documents that Brown drew on (and even appropriated) when he wrote his novel. The streamlined second edition includes an updated introduction that incorporates the explosion of scholarship on the novel over the past decade, when proof of the relationship between Jefferson and Hemings emerged. In addition to their attention to this relationship, the cultural documents focus more directly on the texts about slavery and race that Brown drew on, and on Brown's own controversial approach to writing and revising Clotel. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Levine , Robert Levine , Robert LevinePublisher: Macmillan Learning Imprint: Bedford/Saint Martin's Edition: 2nd ed. 2011 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9780312621070ISBN 10: 0312621078 Pages: 448 Publication Date: 22 December 2010 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsAbout the Series.- About This Volume.- List of Illustrations.- PART I: CLOTEL; OR, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER: THE COMPLETE TEXT.- Introduction: Cultural and Historical Background.- Chronology of Brown's Life and Times.- A Note on the Text and Annotations.- Clotel; or, The President's Daughter [1853 Edition].- PART II: CLOTEL; OR, THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER: CULTURAL CONTEXTS.- Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence.- Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings.- 'All These Combined Have Made Up My Story': Source Texts about Slavery and Race.- Writing and Revising Clotel.- Selected Reviews of Clotel.- Selected Bibliography.ReviewsAuthor InformationROBERT S. LEVINE Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the editor of a number of volumes, including Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader and Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville: Essays in Relation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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