Frederick Douglass / editor, Jericho Williams, Spartanburg Methodist College.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Jericho, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Criticism and interpretation.

Douglass, Frederick.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors--History and criticism.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American--African American authors.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiv, 273 pages).

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

Examines Frederick Douglass's contributions to American and African American literature.

Contents:

About this volume / Jericho Williams

Renaissance man : on Frederick Douglass and American literature / Jericho Williams

The long reaching impact : biography of Frederick Douglass / Litasha Dennis

Autobiography as rhetoric : reading Douglass with Franklin / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Frederick Douglass's rhetorical autobiographies / Kimberly Drake

Frederick Douglass and the (im)possibility of being : an Afro-pessimist reading / Jade M. Becker

Bearing witness to a peculiar institution : a gendered reading of Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Tammie Jenkins

Canonization and its discontents : Narrative of the life in the context of Douglass's intellectual development / David Lawrimore

The many roles of listening in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life and The heroic slave / Mike Kolakoski

"The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon" : self-reliance and selfishness in Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-reliance" and Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Regina Yoong

The anticipatory print life of Frederick Douglass's July Fourth speech (1852) / Lori Leavell

Racial geopolitics in Frederick Douglass's The heroic slave / Srimayee Basu

"Self-made men" : Frederick Douglass's reframing of nineteenth-century American personhood / Rachel Boccio

Making the American self and the self-made man in The life and times of Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography / Amina Gautier

Black voices for freedom : Frederick Douglass and José María Samper's Florencio Conde / Nydia R. Jeffers

Frederick Douglass : legacy and influences / Dike Okoro

Frederick Douglass in James McBride's The good lord bird / Robert C. Evans

Black writers matter : Frederick Douglass in the literary present / Laura Dubek

Chronology of Frederick Douglass's life

Works by Frederick Douglass

Bibliography

About the editor

Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

1-64265-666-6

OCLC:

1182610554