Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature

by Daniel Hack

Book Overview

How African American writers used Victorian literature to create a literature of their own

Tackling fraught but fascinating issues of cultural borrowing and appropriation, this groundbreaking book reveals that Victorian literature was put to use in African American literature and print culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in much more intricate, sustained, and imaginative ways than previously suspected. From reprinting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691196931
• ISBN13: 9780691196930
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"