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Critical Insights: Douglass, Frederick

Table of Contents

About This Volume




Renaissance Man: On Frederick Douglass and American Literature




The Long Reaching Impact: Biography of Frederick Douglass




Critical Contexts



Autobiography as Rhetoric: Reading Douglass with Franklin


Frederick Douglass’s Rhetorical Autobiographies


Frederick Douglass and the (Im)Possibility of Being: An Afro-Pessimist Reading


Bearing Witness to a Peculiar Institution: A Gendered Reading of Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl


Critical Readings



Canonization and Its Discontents: Narrative of the Life in the Context of Douglass’s Intellectual Development


The Many Roles of Listening in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life and The Heroic Slave


“The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon”: Self-Reliance and Selfishness in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass


The Anticipatory Print Life of Frederick Douglass’s July Fourth Speech (1852)


Racial Geopolitics in Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave


“Self-Made Men”: Frederick Douglass’s Reframing of Nineteenth-Century American Personhood


Making the American Self and the Self-Made Man in The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography


Black Voices for Freedom: Frederick Douglass and José María Samper’s Florencio Conde


Frederick Douglass: Legacy and Influences


Frederick Douglass in James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird


Black Writers Matter: Frederick Douglass in the Literary Present


Resources



Chronology of Frederick Douglass’s Life


Works by Frederick Douglass


Bibliography


About the Editor


Contributors