| Description |
1 online resource (x, 528 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I: Historical conditions and contexts of Black Prometheanism. Globalization and the gods : a theory of race and -- or as -- modernity -- The terms of Prometheus's liberation : romanticism, slavery, and the Titan's triumph -- Part II: Prometheus of Africa. Africa versus the absolute : idealism and its others -- The Afro-Promethean "science of the stars" : toward a new metahistory of African survivals -- Part III: Prometheus of Caucasus. Rebinding Prometheus to the Caucasus : idealism's other solution -- Iman Shamil, or the modern Prometheus of Caucasus -- Part IV: A literary history of slave rebellion. Rebellious fictions : Black Prometheus and the undoing of novelistic form -- Byronic abolitionism |
| Summary |
An innovative transnational literary study, Black Prometheus tracks the mythical figure's surprising resonance in Anglo-American antislavery discourse from 1800 until the end of the U.S. Civil War |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 12, 2017) |
| Subject |
Prometheus (Greek deity) -- In literature
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| SUBJECT |
Prometheus (Greek deity) fast |
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Mythology, Classical, in literature.
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Slavery -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
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Literature
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Mythology, Classical, in literature
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Slavery
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Atlantic Ocean Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190272593 |
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0190272597 |
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9780190272609 |
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0190272600 |
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