A powerful history of the forgotten lives of black Georgian Britain
Gretchen Gerzina Libros
Esta autora se especializa en biografía e historia literaria, a menudo profundizando en las vidas y obras de escritores célebres. Su trabajo explora cómo las experiencias personales dan forma al proceso creativo y cómo el arte refleja las corrientes sociales y culturales de su tiempo. Su enfoque es analítico y perspicaz, buscando descubrir aspectos menos conocidos de la vida de sus sujetos y su impacto duradero en el mundo literario. Su escritura está meticulosamente investigada y presentada de manera cautivadora.
This is an examination of the lives of black people in Victorian England. Contributors to the book look at the ways blacks were represented in popular culture of the time and also at their lives as they experienced them - as workers, travellers, lecturers, performers and professionals. schovat popis
In recent years researchers, both affiliated and independent, have done exciting new research on black people in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and even earlier. This book gathers this new work on people and events into a single, exciting new volume.
