Revisionist and Feminist Narratives on Empire, Slavery and the Haitian Revolution / Sharon Worley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Worley, Sharon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Ethics International Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

This study examines how authors responded to the Haitian Revolution with revisionist narratives that seek to support empire or rebellion, while focusing on the ethical ramifications of colonialism and slavery in the Americas. Narrative texts include Leonora Sansay's Secret History, or the Horrors of Santo Domingo, Germaine de Stael's Mirza, Fanny Burney's The Stranger, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Sanditon, Harriet Martineau's The Hour and the Man, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Curse of a Nationand Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point. Additional authors include Lucien Bonaparte, Chateaubriand, Raynal, Edmund Burke and Rousseau. Each author's narrative is examined within the context of the cultural and political factors that influenced the author, as well as their personal ties to the institution of slavery.

Contents:

Intro

Illustrations

Foreword

Chapter 1 Leonora Sansay and Aaron Burr: Empire and Revolution in Haiti

Chapter 2 Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine, Pauline, and Lucien and their Creole Dream of Reconquest

Pauline and General Emmanuel Leclerc

Josephine Beauharnais

Lucien Bonaparte

Chapter 3 Rights of Men and Slaves: Burke, Raynal, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and Staël's Mirza and Burney's The Wanderer

Chapter 4 Chateaubriand and the French Territory Colonial Map of Conquest and Reconquest

Chapter 5 The Portrayal of Caribbean Wealth in Regency England: Lord Mansfield, Dido Belle and Jane Austen

Chapter 6 Harriet Martineau's The Hour and the Man (1841): A Revisionist Hagiography of Toussaint Louverture

Chapter 7 Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Jamaica and her Anti-Slavery Poems

Bibliography.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Worley, Sharon Revisionist and Feminist Narratives on Empire, Slavery and the Haitian Revolution

ISBN:

9781804413333

OCLC:

1446806084