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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 February 2010
      10 February 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511553837
      9780521660266
      9780521121651
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553837
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 150 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.23kg, 152 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1830-1900
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    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1830-1900
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    Audrey Fisch's study, first published in 2000, examines the circulation within England of the people and ideas of the black Abolitionist campaign. During the 1850s, African-Americans and others active in the campaign to abolish slavery, journeyed to England to present the slave experience and rouse opposition to American slavery. By focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, an anonymous sequel to that novel, Uncle Tom in England, and John Brown's Slave Life in Georgia, and the lecture tours of free blacks and ex-slaves, Fisch follows the discourse of American abolitionism as it moved across the Atlantic and was reshaped by domestic Victorian debates about popular culture and taste, the worker versus the slave, popular education, and working class self-improvement. Despite its popular appeal, she claims, the African-American abolitionist campaign actually re-energised English nationalism. This book will be of interest to students of African-American literature, and nineteenth-century American and English literature.

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    "she has provided a fascinating insight into the British response to a brief, intense cultural phenomenon worked in the context of mid-nineteenthy-century England and America." Victorian Periodicals Reveiw

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