Dark Victorians / Vanessa D. Dickerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickerson, Vanessa D., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Relations with British--History.

African Americans.

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

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

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

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

British.

Transnationalism.

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

Great Britain.

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:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dark Victorians illuminates the cross-cultural influences between white Britons and black Americans during the Victorian age. In carefully analyzing literature and travel narratives by Ida B. Wells, Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Carlyle, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others, Vanessa D. Dickerson reveals the profound political, racial, and rhetorical exchanges between the groups. From the nineteenth-century black nationalist David Walker, who urged emigrating African Americans to turn to England, to the twentieth-century writer Maya Angelou, who recalls how those she knew in her childhood aspired to Victorian ideas of conduct, black Americans have consistently embraced Victorian England. At a time when scholars of black studies are exploring the relations between diasporic blacks, and postcolonialists are taking imperialism to task, Dickerson considers how Britons negotiated their support of African Americans with the controlling policies they used to govern a growing empire of often dark-skinned peoples, and how philanthropic and abolitionist Victorian discourses influenced black identity, prejudice, and racism in America.

Contents:

front cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

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

2. Hail Britannia: African Americans Abroad in Victorian England

3. Thomas Carlyle: Case Study of a Dark Victorian

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

Conclusion: Reconsidering Victorian Britain and African America

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

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

ISBN:

9786613223852

9781283223850

1283223856

9780252090981

0252090985

OCLC:

785781174