Annual Review of Environment and Resources

by Matson, P. A.; Gadgil, Ashok; Kammen, Daniel M.

• ISBN13: 9780824323295
• ISBN10: 0824323297
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Annual Reviews

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Critical Essay Collection	ix
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Hollis Robbins
I. The Literary Marketplace
Between the Sentimental Novel and the Slave Narrative
``A Silent Unobtrusive Way'': Hannah Crafts and the Literary Marketplace	3	(13)
Augusta Rohrbach
Bondwoman Unbound: Hannah Crafts's Art and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literary Practice	16	(14)
Lawrence Buell
Hannah Crafts's Sense of an Ending	30	(13)
William Andrews
Hannah Crafts, Novelist; or, How a Silent Observer Became a ``Dabster at Invention,''	43	(10)
Ann Fabian
The Problem of Freedom in The Bondwoman's Narrative	53	(18)
John Stauffer
II. Rewriting the Canon
Blackening Bleak House: Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative	71	(16)
Hollis Robbins
Jane Eyre, Bondwoman: Hannah Crafts's Rethinking of Charlotte Bronte	87	(19)
Catherine Keyser
The Bondwoman's Narrative and Uncle Tom's Cabin	106	(11)
Jean Fagan Yellin
The Bondwoman's Escape: Hannah Crafts Rewrites the First Play Published by an African American	117	(12)
Shelley Fisher Fishkin
III. Antebellum Contexts
Mrs. Henry's ``Solemn Promise'' in Historical Perspective	129	(16)
Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
``I Dwell Now in a Neat Little Cottage'': Architecture, Race, and Desire in The Bondwoman's Narrative	145	(30)
William Gleason
Godly Rebellion in The Bondwoman's Narrative	175	(20)
Bryan Sinche
IV. African American Gothic
The Art of Ghost-Writing: Memory, Materiality, and Slave Aesthetics	195	(18)
Russ Castronovo
Hannah crafts	213	(18)
Priscilla Wald
``I found a life of freedom all my fancy had pictured it to be'': Hannah Crafts's Visual Speculation and the Inner Life of Slavery	231	(23)
Christopher Castiglia
Gothic Liberties and Fugitive Novels: The Bondwoman's Narrative and the Fiction of Race	254	(22)
Karen Sanchez-Eppler
Trappe(d): Race and Genealogical Haunting in The Bondwoman's Narrative	276	(19)
Robert S. Levine
``Don't speak dearest, it will make you worse'': The Bondwoman's Narrative, the Afro-American Literary Tradition, and the Trope of the Lying Book	295	(20)
Zoe Trodd
V. In Search of an Author
The Case for Hannah Vincent	315	(17)
Nina Baym
The Outsider Within: The Acquisition and Application of Forms of Oppositional Knowledge in Hannah Crafts's	332	(22)
Rudolph P. Byrd
The Bondwoman and the Bureaucrat	354	(17)
Thomas C. Parramore
Jane Johnson, Found! But Is She ``Hannah Crafts''? The Search for the Author of The Bondwoman's Narrative	371	(35)
Katherine E. Flynn
Searching for Hannah Crafts	406	(13)
Joe Nickell
VI. Reviews
The Bondwoman's Narrative: An 1850s Account of Slave Life	419	(3)
Mia Bay
The Shape of Absence	422	(9)
Hilary Mantel
Literary Blackface	431	(8)
John Bloom
Desperate Measures	439	(4)
Ira Berlin
About the Authors	443	(4)
Index	447