Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century

by Vincent Carretta (Editor)

Overview

In 'Unchained Voices', Vincent Carreta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard clearly for the first time in two centuries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813144092
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	04/06/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Vincent Carretta, professor of English at the University of Maryland, is the author of several books on eighteenth-century literature and, most recently, the editor of Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings.

Editorial Reviews

This excellent anthology meets a longstanding need for a scholarly collection of early Anglo African and African American writers.

African American Review

An excellent anthology.

Times Literary Supplement

An important work for gaining an understanding of a heretofore little examined aspect of the eighteenth century.

Bloomsbury Review

This is the most comprehensive collection of writings by people of African descent on both sides of the Atlantic more than 200 years ago.

Lexington Herald-Leader

Cause for celebration.... Will no doubt contribute to the ongoing rethinking of the eighteenth-century canon.

Year's Work in English Studies

Carretta has done eighteenth-century studies an immeasurable service.... The definitive anthology of black writing of the eighteenth-century African diaspora, serving the purpose of both introduction to and contestation of the overlapping fields of American, British, religious, and African studies.

Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Most challenging and exhaustive, both in quality and quantity of research, presentation, scope, and premise. Carretta seeks to validate what for him is an unbroken link of unshackled black literary voices.

Eighteenth-Century Studies

The selection of texts is diverse and wide-ranging.... The most comprehensive anthology on the subject and deserves to become the standard text for students in eighteenth-century studies and American studies.

British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Establishes the canon of Black diasporic authors writing in English in the 18th century and makes the texts accessible to scholars and students.

East-Central Intelligencer

"An excellent anthology." -- Times Literary Supplement

"An important work for gaining an understanding of a heretofore little examined aspect of the eighteenth century." -- Bloomsbury Review

"Carretta has done eighteenth-century studies an immeasurable service.... The definitive anthology of black writing of the eighteenth-century African diaspora, serving the purpose of both introduction to and contestation of the overlapping fields of American, British, religious, and African studies." -- Eighteenth-Century Fiction

"Cause for celebration.... Will no doubt contribute to the ongoing rethinking of the eighteenth-century canon." -- Year's Work in English Studies

"Establishes the canon of Black diasporic authors writing in English in the 18th century and makes the texts accessible to scholars and students." -- East-Central Intelligencer

"Most challenging and exhaustive, both in quality and quantity of research, presentation, scope, and premise. Carretta seeks to validate what for him is an unbroken link of unshackled black literary voices." -- Eighteenth-Century Studies

"The selection of texts is diverse and wide-ranging.... The most comprehensive anthology on the subject and deserves to become the standard text for students in eighteenth-century studies and American studies." -- British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies

"This is the most comprehensive collection of writings by people of African descent on both sides of the Atlantic more than 200 years ago." -- Lexington Herald-Leader

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