An engaging and informative overview of the life and works of Frederick Douglass.

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians an

This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

The American Renaissance has been a foundational concept in American literary history for nearly a century. The phrase connotes a period, as well as an event, a