The Discourse of Slavery - From Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison (Hardcover)

"The Discourse of Slavery" is a collection of essays addressing the issue of slavery within literary, cultural and political writings. Slavery is here examined critically within both British and American contexts, and related to contemporary concerns connected with race and gender. Writers discussed include: Aphra Behn, William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass.