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American slavery and Russian serfdom in the post-emancipation imagination / Amanda Brickell Bellows.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellows, Amanda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Freed persons--United States--In mass media--History--19th century.
- Freed persons.
- Peasants--Russia--In mass media--History--19th century.
- Peasants.
- Collective memory--United States--Cross-cultural studies.
- Collective memory.
- Collective memory--Russia--Cross-cultural studies.
- Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
- Enslaved persons.
- Serfs--Emancipation--Russia.
- Serfs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- Analysing portrayals of African Americans and Russian serfs in paintings, adverts, fiction, poetry, and ephemera housed in American and Russian archives, Amanda Brickell Bellows argues that these depictions shaped collective memory of slavery and serfdom, affected the development of national consciousness, and influenced public opinion.
- Contents:
- Radical literature on the eve of emancipations
- Popular historical fiction
- Illustrated periodicals and lithographs
- Oil paintings
- Advertisements and ephemera
- Literature and visual culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 4, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908573-2-3
- 979-88-908573-3-0
- 1-4696-5556-X
- OCLC:
- 1151408219
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