Introduction. The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian
Novel
Chapter One. The Slave Narrative of Jane Eyre
Chapter Two. Slaves and Brothers in Pendennis
Chapter Three. Female Slave Narratives: "The Grey Woman" and My
Lady Ludlow
Chapter Four. The Return of the "Unnative": North and South
Chapter Five. Fugitive Plots in Great Expectations
Epilogue. The Plot Against England: The Dynamiter
Works Cited
Julia Sun-Joo Lee is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California.
"Lee's book is valuable not only for demonstrating how much
Victorian novels have in common with American slave narratives, but
for beginning to address the questions this kinship raises...This
book breaks new ground, and later critics will build upon it to
deepen our understanding of the relationship between the slave
narrative and the Victorian novel." --Victorian Studies
"The great originality of Julia Sun-Joo Lee's work lies in the way
it traces the influence of African American writing within the
traditional heart of British Victorian literature, demonstrating
how canonical writers such as Thackeray, Dickens, Gaskell, and
Charlotte Brontë were responding in different ways to the genre of
the slave narrative. With its surprising but illuminating
juxtapositions, this is an example of transatlantic critical
practice at its
best." --Paul Giles, author of Atlantic Republic
"The slave's narrative, meant solely to help in the abolishing of
slavery, has always had its own literary integrity and importance.
Here in this brilliant and original book, Julia Lee shows us the
profound influence and transformation it had on the imagination of
some of our great writers. With much splendid clarity of words and
thought, The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel will
continue that tradition of influence and transformation."
--Jamaica Kincaid, author of A Small Place
"Julia Sun-Joo Lee makes the case for the influence of American
slavery and the slave narrative on the Victorian novel. Her
carefully researched, elegantly written, and original studies of
texts by Brontë, Thackeray, Gaskell, Dickens, and Stevenson are
sure to become staples." --Audrey Fisch, author of American Slaves
in Victorian England
"Fresh and surefooted, Julia Sun-Joo Lee's book does what no other
book has done before: it presents the American slave narrative as a
point of origin for English narratives of dissent, resistance, and
freedom. This is a welcome and, as Lee's authoritative work shows,
a well-founded change in critical orientation. Lee's pathbreaking
book will transform the fields of Victorian, transatlantic, and
African American studies." --Henry Louis Gates Jr., author of
The Signifying Monkey
"Offers compelling evidence of the depth of Victorian writers'
engagement with the plots, images, and motifs of American slave
narratives...The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel
offers a rich array of information and ideas that will make it a
rewarding read for any student of Victorian literature."
--Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
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