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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Brown, William Wells, author.     Sanborn, Geoffrey, editor.     Subjects     Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Relations with women -- Fiction.     Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.     African American families -- Fiction     Children of presidents -- Fiction.     Racially mixed people -- Fiction.     Illegitimate children -- Fiction.     Women slaves -- Fiction.     African American families.     Children of presidents     Illegitimate children     Racially mixed people     Relations with women.     Women slaves     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brown, William Wells, author.      Sanborn, Geoffrey, editor.       by title:      Clotel, or, The pres...         MARC Display

Clotel, or, The president's daughter / William Wells Brown ; edited by Geoffrey Sanborn. by Brown, William Wells, author., Sanborn, Geoffrey, editor. Peterborough, Ontario : Broadview Press, 2016. Series:  Broadview editions. Description:  278 pages ; 22 cm. Contents:  Introduction -- William Wells Brown : a brief chronology -- A note on the text -- Clotel; or, The president's daughter -- Appendix A. Contemporary reviews -- Appendix B. Slave-auction scenes -- Appendix C. The aesthetic of attractions -- Appendix D. Brown and his audiences -- Appendix E. Plagiarism. Summary:  "As nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, Clotel was an audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the post-Uncle Tom's Cabin "mania" for abolitionist fiction in Great Britain, where William Wells Brown lived between 1849 and 1854. The novel tells the story of Clotel and Althesa, the fictional daughters of Thomas Jefferson and his mixed-race slave. Like the popular and entertaining public lectures that Brown gave in England and America, Clotel is a series of startling, attention-grabbing narrative "attractions." Brown creates in this novel a delivery system for these attractions, in an effort to draw as many readers as possible towards anti-slavery and anti-racist causes. Rough, studded with caricatures, and intimate with the racism it ironizes, Clotel is still capable of creating a potent mix of discomfort and delight. This edition aims to makes it possible to read Clotel in something like its original cultural context. Working Geoffrey Sanborn's Introduction discusses Brown's extensive plagiarism of other authors in composing Clotel, as well as his narrative strategies in the novel."-- Genre:  Fiction.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 813.4 Bro 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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