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Clotel
Title
Clotel [electronic resource] / by William Wells Brown ; edited by Christopher Mulvey.
ISBN
0813925681
9780813925684
Edition
Electronic scholarly ed.
Published
Charlottesville, Va. : The University of Virginia Press, 2006.
Local Notes
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Notes
Title from home page (viewed on July 28, 2008).
Includes the four versions of Clotel, published between 1853 and 1867: Clotel; or the President's Daughter: a Narrative of Slave Life in the United States, London, Partridge & Oakey, 1953 ; Miralda; or, The Beautiful Quadroon. A Romance of American Slavery, Founded on Fact, In Sixteen Installments, New York. Weekly Anglo African, December 1, 1860 to March 16, 1861 ; Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States, Boston: J. Redpath, 1864 ; Clotelle; or The Colored Heroine, A Tale of the Southern States, Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1867.
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Summary
The first African American novel, Clotel was published when its author was still legally a slave. This digital edition presents, for the first time together, the full extant texts of the novel's four versions, published between 1853 and 1867. Imaged and coded, the fully searchable texts may be read individually or in parallel and are accompanied by generous biographical, critical, and historical commentary as well as line-by-line annotations and textual collation.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 27, 2015
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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