Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change: Women and Power in Gothic Novels and Slave Narratives, 1790-1865

By Kari J. Winter

Book Overview

In Subjects of Slavery, Agents of Change, Kari J. Winter compares the ways in which two marginalized genres of women's writing - female Gothic novels and slave narratives - represent the oppression of women and their resistance to oppression. Analyzing the historical contexts in which Gothic novels and slave narratives were written, Winter shows that both types of writing expose the sexual politics at the heart of patriarchal culture and both represent the terrifying aspects of life for women.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082031420X
• ISBN13: 9780820314204
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"