Dark Victorians / Vanessa D. Dickerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickerson, Vanessa D., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.

African Americans--Relations with British--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Great Britain--History--19th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life--19th century.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans--Attitudes--History--19th century.

British--Attitudes--History--19th century.

British.

Political and social views.

British--Attitudes.

History.

African Americans--Attitudes.

African Americans--Relations with British.

Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Great Britain.

Intellectual life.

Transnationalism.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963--Political and social views.

Du Bois, W. E. B.

Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881--Political and social views.

Carlyle, Thomas.

Physical Description:

163 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]

Summary:

Understanding connections between black Americans and white Victorian Britons

Contents:

Introduction: Crossing the Big Water between White Victorians and Black Americans 1

1 On Coming to America: The British Subject and the African American Slave 13

2 Hail Britannia: African Americans Abroad in Victorian England 44

3 Thomas Carlyle: Case Study of a Dark Victorian 74

4 W. E. B. Du Bois and the Victorian Soul of Black Folk 95

Conclusion: Reconsidering Victorian Britain and African America 127.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-153) and index.

ISBN:

9780252032561

025203256X

OCLC:

163592995