This volume explores intersections
between Western thinking and Eastern religion. Each
essay re-examines Romantic-era work in light of the
"guides and basic principles" of Buddhist...
Circulations: Romanticism and the Black Atlantic
Table of Contents
- About this Volume
- "Introduction: Black Romanticism: Romantic Circulations"
- Paul Youngquist, University of Colorado, Boulder & Frances Botkin, Towson University
- Abstract | Essay
- "Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Demon, Demigod, and Everything in Between"
- Lindsay J. Twa, Augustana College
- Abstract | Essay
- "Rewriting the History of Black Resistance: The Haitian Revolution, Jamaican Maroons and the 'History' of Three-Fingered Jack in English Popular Culture, 1799-1830"
- Lissette Lopez Szwydky, The Pennsylvania State University
- Abstract | Essay
- "Translating a Slave’s Life: Richard Robert Madden and the Post-Abolition Trafficking of Juan Manzano’s Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba"
- Joselyn Almeida, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Abstract | Essay
- "Going Viral: Stedman's Narrative, Textual Variation, and Life in Atlantic Studies"
- Dustin Kennedy, The Pennsylvania State University
- Abstract | Essay
- "Blood Sugar and Salt Licks: Corroding Bodies and Preserving Nations in The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself"
- Michele Speitz, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Abstract | Essay
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October 2011
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