Böcker av Robert S. Levine

This book offers new perspectives on race and transnationalism in nineteenth-century American literary studies, and ranges widely in developing new approaches to canonical and non canonical authors. It will appeal to graduates and scholars working on nineteenth-century American literature, transnationalism, and African American literary studies.

The political differences between Douglass and Delany have historically been reduced to ""assimilationist versus separationist"". The author of this study seeks to restore their relationship to its original complexity, exploring their debates over abolitionism, emigration and nationalism.

Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the republic and the Civil war.

Frederick Douglass's changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in his many conflicting accounts of events during his journey from slavery to freedom. Robert S. Levine creates a fascinating collage of this elusive subject-revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and writer.