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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393264241
Year: 2017
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Description:
This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup's harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke™s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.
The Norton Critical Edition also includes:
The illustrations printed in the original book.
Contemporary sources (1853-62), among them newspaper accounts of Northup™s kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W. MacMahon.
A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2015) presenting twenty-four voices spanning three centuries on the memoir's major themes. Contributors include George Washington Williams, Marion Wilson Starling, Kenneth Stampp, Robert B. Stepto, Trish Loughran, and David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, Jr., and Rachel Seligman, among others.
The 2013 film adaptation”12 Years a Slave”fully considered, with criticism and major reviews of the film as well as Henry Louis Gates's three interviews with its director, Steve McQueen.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393264241
Year: 2017
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 432
Description:
This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup's harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke™s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes.
The Norton Critical Edition also includes:
The illustrations printed in the original book.
Contemporary sources (1853-62), among them newspaper accounts of Northup™s kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W. MacMahon.
A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2015) presenting twenty-four voices spanning three centuries on the memoir's major themes. Contributors include George Washington Williams, Marion Wilson Starling, Kenneth Stampp, Robert B. Stepto, Trish Loughran, and David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, Jr., and Rachel Seligman, among others.
The 2013 film adaptation”12 Years a Slave”fully considered, with criticism and major reviews of the film as well as Henry Louis Gates's three interviews with its director, Steve McQueen.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography.