Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism
- ISBN-10
- 0393614565
- ISBN-13
- 9780393614565
- Series
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 385
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton
- Author
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes:The first edition (1861), with the editors' explanatory annotations, introduction, and glossary of the people of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.Three illustrations.Key public statements by Harriet Jacobs, William C. Nell, the Reverend Francis J. Grimke, and others.A rich selection of correspondence by Harriet Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child, and John Greenleaf Whittier, suggesting Incidents's initial reception.Ten major critical essays, six of them new to the Second Edition.A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.About the SeriesRead by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format--annotated text, contexts, and criticism--helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
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