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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[F]ascinating and original... Hack's skill and sensitivity as a literary critic and the thoroughness of his research make Reaping Something New one of the most compelling works of trans-Atlantic literary scholarship to appear in recent years."--Joseph Rezek, Chronicle of Higher Education "As Hack observes, the relationship between Victorian literature and African American literature has been neglected, and this book fills that gap."--Choice
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction The African Americanization of Victorian Literature 1 1 Close Reading Bleak House at a Distance 23 2 (Re-) Racializing "The Charge of the Light Brigade" 45 3 Affiliating with George Eliot 76 4 Racial Mixing and Textual Remixing: Charles Chesnutt 102 5 Cultural Transmission and Transgression: Pauline Hopkins 135 6 The Citational Soul of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois 176 Afterword After Du Bois 205 Notes 213 Bibliography 259 Index 273
