Table of Contents:
  • Strange bedfellows: blackface minstrelsy and abolitionism in America
  • Abolitionism, nationalism, blackface minstrelsy, and racial attitudes in Victorian Britain
  • Race, abolitionism, and blackface imagery in Victorian literature
  • Our only truly national poets: blackface minstrelsy, slave narratives, cultural
  • Nationalism, and the American Renaissance
  • Blackface tropes in nineteenth-century American literature.