{"product_id":"9781554812899","title":"Clotel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs nearly all of its reviewers pointed out, \u003cb\u003eClotel\u003c\/b\u003e was an audience-minded performance, an effort to capitalize on the post—\u003cb\u003eUncle Tom’s Cabin\u003c\/b\u003e “mania” for abolitionist fiction in Great Britain, where William Wells Brown lived between 1849 and 1854. The novel tells the story of Clotel and Althesa, the fictional daughters of Thomas Jefferson and his mixed-race slave. Like the popular and entertaining public lectures that Brown gave in England and America, \u003cb\u003eClotel\u003c\/b\u003e is a series of startling, attention-grabbing narrative “attractions.” Brown creates in this novel a delivery system for these attractions in an effort to draw as many readers as possible toward anti-slavery and anti-racist causes. Rough, studded with caricatures, and intimate with the racism it ironizes, \u003cb\u003eClotel\u003c\/b\u003e is still capable of creating a potent mix of discomfort and delight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition aims to make it possible to read \u003cb\u003eClotel\u003c\/b\u003e in something like its original cultural context. Geoffrey Sanborn’s Introduction discusses Brown’s extensive plagiarism of other authors in composing \u003cb\u003eClotel\u003c\/b\u003e, as well as his narrative strategies within the novel itself. Appendices include material on slave auctions, contemporary attractions and amusements, and the topic of plagiarism more broadly. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053041991920,"sku":"9781554812899","price":17.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554812899_p0.jpg?v=1763754273","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554812899","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}