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Geoffrey Sanborn
William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a vocal abolitionist, a frequent antagonist of Frederick Douglass, and the author of Clotel, the first known novel by an African American. He was also…
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Offers a novel reading of the abolitionist writer’s plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of capitalizing on the energies of mass-cultural entertainments popularized by showmen such as P. T…
Geoffrey Sanborn offers a reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenment discourse on cannibalism, and a provocative contribution to postcolonial theory.
Geoffrey Sanborn (Amherst College, Massachusetts)
In this book, Geoffrey Sanborn explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career, focusing in particular on Moby-Dick, ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’, ‘Benito Cereno’, and Billy Budd, and examines the…
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William Wells Brown
Geoffrey Sanborn’s edition of Clotel highlights the complexity of the novel’s composition and its place in 19th-century print and performance culture.
Geoffrey Sanborn (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Bard College)
Through careful historical research, Geoffrey Sanborn reveals how James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the Maori, to develop…
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930), African American novelist, editor, journalist, playwright, historian, and public intellectual, used fiction to explore and intervene in the social, racial, and political challenges of her era…
