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"[H]eroic bravery in more than one battle": The Creation of Heroes in William Wells Brown's Multi-Edition Clotel.
Document Type
Literary Criticism
Source
African American Review; Summer2016, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p75-91, 17p
Subject
Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (Book)
Brown, William Wells, 1814-1884
African American fiction
Editions
Antislavery movements in literature
Heroes -- Fiction
White people
Textual criticism
Themes in literature
Nineteenth century
Literary criticism
American fiction
United States
Language
ISSN
10624783
Abstract
A literary textual criticism is presented of multiple editions (multi-editions) of the 1853 African American novel "Clotel; Or, The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States," by William Wells Brown. The changes in the depiction of the heroism of white and African American abolitionists in subsequent editions of the book, including of the fictitious white abolitionist Henry Morton in the book, are discussed.