Fire on the Water : Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 /
Warren, Lenora
Fire on the Water : Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 / Lenora Warren. - 1 online resource (181 p.) : 2 - Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- 2. Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility -- 3. Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny, and Revolutionary Whitewashing -- 4. The Black and White Sailor: Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781684480210
10.36019/9781684480210 doi
Abolitionists in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Antislavery movements in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Slave insurrections in literature.
Slave rebellions in literature.
Slavery in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PS217.S55 / W37 2019
810.9/35873
Fire on the Water : Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 / Lenora Warren. - 1 online resource (181 p.) : 2 - Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- 2. Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility -- 3. Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny, and Revolutionary Whitewashing -- 4. The Black and White Sailor: Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode -- Coda -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781684480210
10.36019/9781684480210 doi
Abolitionists in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Antislavery movements in literature.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Slave insurrections in literature.
Slave rebellions in literature.
Slavery in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PS217.S55 / W37 2019
810.9/35873