American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture

ISBN: 9780521121651 出版年：2000 页码：151 Audrey A Fisch Cambridge University Press

Introduction: communicating 'a correct knowledge of American slavery': J. B. Estlin and the 'breeder' in Frederick Douglass's Narrative 1. 'Exhibiting Uncle Tom in some shape or other': the commercialisation and reception of Uncle Tom's Cabin in England 2. Abolition as a 'step to reform in our kingdom': Chartism, 'white slaves', and a new 'Uncle Tom' in England 3. 'Repetitious accounts so piteous and so harrowing': the ideological work of American slave narratives in England 4. 'Negrophilism' and nationalism: the spectacle of the African-American abolitionist Epilogue: 'How cautious and calculating?': English audiences and the impostor Reuben Nixon.