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Trafficking Subjects: The Politics Of Mobility In Nineteenth-Century America
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Trafficking Subjects: The Politics Of Mobility In Nineteenth-Century America
Contributors:
By (Author) Mark Simpson
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:
University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date:
3rd January 2005
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
304.8
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
232
Dimensions:
Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 28mm
Description
Simpson (English, U. of Alberta, Canada) begins with a reading of the Confessions of Nat Turner and explores the legal discourse of human movement under the institution of slavery. Shifting to fictional discourses of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville, he discusses the commercial power of travel narratives in the emergent capitalist publishing ind
