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Selected Bibliography on Frederick Douglass

Anderson, Douglas. “The Textual Reproductions of Frederick Douglass.” CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 27.1 (1997): 57-87.

Andrews, William L, ed. My Bondage and My Freedom. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1987.

Andrews, William L. "Frederick Douglass, Preacher." American 54.4 (Dec.1982): 592-597.

Andrews, William L. "Reunion in the Postbellum Slave Narrative: Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Keckley." Black American Literature Forum 23.1 (Spring 1989): 5-16.

Andrews, William L. "The 1850s: The First Afro-American Literary Renaissance." Literary Romanticism in America. Ed.William L. Andrews. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1981. 38-60

Awkward, Michael. "Negotiations of Power: White Critics, Black Texts, and the Self-Referential Impulse." American Literary History 2.4 (Winter 1990): 581-606.

Barrett, Lindon. “The Experiences of Slave Narratives: Reading Against Authenticity.” Hall 31-41.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York: Chelsea, 1988.

Brawley, Lisa. "Frederick Douglas's My Bondage and My Freedom and the Fugitive Tourist Industry." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 30.1 (Fall 1996): 98-128.

Burt, John. "Learning To Write: The Narrative of Frederick Douglass." Western Humanities Review 42.4 (Winter 1988): 330-344.

Carson, Sharon."Shaking the Foundation: Liberation Theology in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass." Religion and Literature 24.2 (Summer 1992).

Cassuto, Leonard. "Frederick Douglass and the Work of Freedom: Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic in the Fugitive Slave Narrative." Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 21 (1996): 229-59.

Castronovo, Russ. "'As to Nation, I Belong to None': Ambivalence, Disapora, and Frederick Douglass." American Transcendental Quarterly 9.3 (Sept. 1995): 245-60.

Castronovo, Russ. “Framing the Slave Narrative/Framing Discussion.” Hall  42-48.

Chesebrough, David B. Frederick Douglass : oratory from slavery. Great American orators no. 26. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Crane, Gregg D. “Douglass's Natural Rights Constitutionalism.” Hall 73-80.

De Pietro, Thomas. "Vision and Revision in the Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass." College Language Association Journal 26.4 (June 1983): 384-396.

Dorsey, Peter A. "Becoming the Other: The Mimesis of Metaphor in Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 111.3 (May 1996): 435-50.

Douglass, Frederick, et al. The Frederick Douglass Papers. New Haven Conn.: Yale University Press, 1999.

Dunbar-Odom, Donna. "'Mastering' Representation: Rhetorical Constructions of the Life of Frederick Douglass." Conference of College Teachers of English Studies (CCTEP) 55 (1995): 26-32.

Dupuy, Edward J. "Linguistic Mastery and the Garden of the Chattel in Frederick Douglass' Narrative." Mississippi Quarterly 44.1 (Winter 1990-1991): 23-33.

Dudley, David L. “Teaching Douglass's Narrative in the World Literature Survey.” Hall 133-38.

Ernest, John. “Qualified Knowledge: Douglass and Harriet Jacobs.” Hall 110-16.

Fichtelberg, Joseph. "The Writer against Himself: Child and Man in the Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass." Mid-Hudson Language Studies 12.1 (1989): 72-80.

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, and Carla L. Peterson. "'We Hold These Truths to Be Self-Evident': The Rhetoric of Frederick Douglass's Journalism." Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.189-204.

Folsom, Ed. “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Slave: Douglass's Frontispiece Engravings.”Hall  55-65.

Franchot, Jenny."The Punishment of Esther: Frederick Douglass and the Constitution of the Feminine." Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 199.141-65.

Gates, Henry-Louis, Jr. "Binary Oppositions in Chapter One of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave Written by Himself."Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction. Ed. Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto. New York: MLA, 1979. 212-32

Gibson, Donald B. "Christianity and Individualism: (Re)-Creation and Reality in Frederick Doulgass's Representation of Self." African American Review 26.4 (Winter 1992): 591-603. Maxwell, Barry Frederick. "Douglass's Haven-Finding Art."Arizona Quarterly 48.4 (Winter 1992): 47-73.

Gibson, Donald B. "Faith, Doubt, and Apostasy: Evidence of Things Unseen in Frederick Douglass's Narrative." Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. 84-98.

Goddu, Teresa A, and Craig V. Smith. "Scenes of Writing in Frederick Douglass's Narrative: Autobiography and the Creation of Self." The Southern Review 25.4 (Autumn 1989): 822-840.

Hakutani, Yoshinobu, and Robert Butler, eds. The City in African-American Literature. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1995.

Hall, James C. Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America, 1999.

Hapke, Laura. “A Labor Studies Approach to Douglass's Narrative.” Hall 88-94.

Hubbard, Dolan. "'Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around': Reading the Narrative of Frederick Douglass." The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism. Ed. Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Frances Murphy Zauhar. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1993. 265-71

Jay, Gregory S. "American Literature and the New Historicism: The Example of Frederick Douglass." Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 17.1 (Spring 1990): 211-242.

Jehlen, Myra. "Literature and Authority." Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and the Teaching of Literature. Ed. Charles Moran and Elizabeth Penfield. Urbana: Nat. Council of Teachers of Eng., 1990. 7-18.

Jenkins, Lee. “'The Black O'Connell': Frederick Douglass and Ireland.” Nineteenth Century Studies 13 (1999): 22-46.

Klammer, Martin. “Teaching Douglass's Narrative in an Introductory Humanities Course.” Hall 123-32.
Kibbey, Ann. "Language in Slavery: Frederick Douglass' Narrative." Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies 8 (1983): 163-182.

Lee, Lisa Yun. "The Politics of Language in Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of an American Slave."MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 17.2 (Summer 1991-1992): 51-59.

Leverenz, David Frederick. "Douglass's Self-Refashioning." Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 29.3 (Summer 1987).

Leverenz, David. Manhood and the American Renaissance.

Levine, Robert S. "Uncle Tom's Cabin in Frederick Douglass' Paper: An Analysis of Reception." American Literature 64.1 (Mar 1992): 71-93.

Lewis, Richard O. "Romanticism in the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt: The Influence of Dickens, Scott, Tourgee, and Douglas." College Language Association Journal 26.2 (Dec. 1982): 145-171.

MacKethan, Lucinda H. "Metaphors of Mastery in the Slave Narratives." The Art of the Slave Narrative: Original Essays in Criticism and Theory. Ed. John Sekora and Darwin T. Turner. Macomb: Western Illinois Univ., 1982. 55-69.

Mailloux, Steven."Misreading as a Historical Act: Cultural Rhetoric, Bible Politics, and Fuller's 1845 Review of Douglass's Narrative." Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response. Ed. James L. Machor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993. 3-31.

Matterson, Stephen. “Shaped by Readers: The Slave Narratives of Frederick Douglas and Harriet Jacobs.” In Kilcup, Karen L. (ed. and introd.). Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 1999. 82-96.

McCaskill, Barbara. “'Trust No Man!' But What About a Woman? Ellen Craft and the Genealogical Model for Teaching Douglass's Narrative.” Hall  95-101.

MacKethan, Lucinda H. "Huck Finn and the Slave Narratives: Lighting Out as Design." The Southern Review (Spring 1984) 20.2: 247-264.

McDowell, Deborah E. "In the First Place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American Narrative Tradition." Critical Essays on Frederick Douglass. Ed. William L. Andrews. Rpt. in African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. William L. Andrews. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. 36-58.

Meer, Sarah. "Sentimentality and the Slave Narrative: Frederick Douglass' My Bondage and My Freedom." The Uses of Autobiography. Ed. Julia Swindells. London: Taylor & Francis, 1995. 89-97.

Miller, Keith D., and Ruth Ellen Kocher. “Shattering Kidnapper's Heavenly Union: Interargumentation in Douglass's Oratory and Narrative.” Hall  1999. 81-87.

Mills, Bruce. “Teaching Douglass's Narrative in the United States Literature Survey.” Hall  1999. 139-50. \

Mixon, Wayne. "The Shadow of Slavery: Frederick Douglass, the Savage South, and the Next Generation." Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. 233-52.

Moses, Wilson J. "Dark Forests and Barbarian Vigor: Paradox, Conflict, and Africanity in Black Writing before 1914." American Literary History 1.3 (Fall 1989): 637-655.

Moses, Wilson J. "Writing Freely? Frederick Douglass and the Constraints of Racialized Writing." Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. 66-83.

Nichols, William W. "Individualism and Autobiographical Art: Frederick Douglass and Henry Thoreau." College Language Association Journal 16 (1972): 145-58.

Olney, James. "The Founding Fathers - Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington." Slavery and the Literary Imagination. Ed. Deborah E. McDowell, Deborah and Arnold Rampersad. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989.1-24.

Patterson, Anita. “Doing More Than Patrick Henry: Douglass's Narrative and Nineteenth-Century American Protest Writing.”  Hall  117-22.

Piper, Henry Dan "The Place of Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of an American Slave in the Development of a Native American Prose Style." Jour. of Afro-Amer. Issues. 5 (1977): 183-91.

Rice, Alan J., and Martin Crawford. Liberating sojourn : Frederick Douglass & Transatlantic Reform. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.

Rowe, John Carlos. "Between Politics and Poetics: Frederick Douglass and Postmodernity." Reconstructing American Literary and Historical Studies. Ed. Lenz, Gunter H., Hartmut Keil, and Sabine Brock-Sallah. Frankfurt: Campus, 1990. 192-210.

Royer, Daniel J. "The Process of Literacy as Communal Involvement in the Narratives of Frederick Douglass."African American Review 28.3 (Fall 1994): 363-74.

Sale, Maggie. "Critiques from Within: Antebellum Projects of Resistance."American Literature 64.4 (Dec 1992): 695-718.

Sale, Maggie. "To Make the Past Useful: Frederick Douglass' Politics of Solidarity." Arizona Quarterly 51.3 (Autumn 1995): 25-60.

Schultz, Elizabeth. “Incidents in the Life of Frederick Douglass.” Hall 102-09.

Sekora, John. "Comprehending Slavery; Language and Personal History in Douglass' Narrative of 1845." College Language Association Journal 29.2 (Dec 1985): 157-170.

Sekora, John. "The Dilemma of Frederick Douglass: The Slave Narrative as Literary Institution." Essays in Literature 10.2 (Fall 1983): 219-226.

Sisco, Lisa. "'Writing in the Spaces Left': Literacy as a Process of Becoming in the Narratives of Frederick Douglass." American Transcendental Quarterly 9.3 (Sept. 1995):195-227.

Slote, Ben. "Revising Freely: Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Disembodiment." A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 11.1 (Spring 1996): 19-37.

Smith, Sidonie. "Performativity, Autobiographical Practice, Resistance." A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 10.1 (Spring 1995): 17-33.

Steele, Jeffrey. “Douglass and Sentimental Rhetoric.” Hall  66-72.

Stepto, Robert B. "Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Frederick Douglass' Narrative of 1845." Rpt. in African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. and introd. William L. Andrews. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993. 26-35.

Stepto, Robert B. "Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Frederick Douglass' Narrative of 1845." Afro-American Literature: The Reconstruction of Instruction. Ed. Dexter Fisher and Robert B. Stepto. New York: MLA, 1979. 178-91.

Stepto, Robert B. "Sharing the Thunder:The Literary Exchanges of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Bibb, and Frederick Douglass." New Essays on Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1986. 135-53.

Stepto, Robert B. "Storytelling in Early Afro-American Fiction: Frederick Douglass' 'The Heroic Slave.'" The Georgia Review 36.2 (Summer 1982): 355-368.

Stuckey, Sterling.'"Ironic Tenacity': Frederick Douglass's Seizure of the Dialect." Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. 23-46.

Sundquist, Eric J., ed. Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.

Van Leer, David. "Reading Slavery: The Anxiety of Ethnicity in Douglass's Narrative." Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. 118-40.

Walker, Peter F. Moral Choices: Memory, Desire, and Imagination in Nineteenth-Century American Abolition. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1978.

Wallace, Maurice. "Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography." Subjects and Citizens: Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill. Ed. Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1995.

Wardrop, Daneen. “'While I Am Writing': Webster's 1825 Spelling Book, the Ell, and Frederick Douglass's Positioning of Language.” African American Review 32.4 (1998): 649-60.

Warren, Kenneth W. "Frederick Douglass's Life and Times: Progressive Rhetoric and the Problem of Constituency." Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991. 253-70.

Wohlpart, A. "James' Privatized Sentiment and the Institution of Christianity: Douglass's Ethical Stance in the Narrative."American Transcendental Quarterly 9.3 (Sept. 1995):181-94.

Wortham, Thomas. "Did Emerson Blackball Frederick Douglass from Membership in the Town and Country Club?" New England Quarterly 65.2 (June 1992): 294-98.

Yarborough, Richard. "Race, Violence, and Manhood: The Masculine Ideal in Frederick Douglass's 'The Heroic Slave.'" Frederick Douglass: New Literary and Historical Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.166-88.

Zilversmit, Arthur. “Douglass's 'Perplexing Difficulty'.” Hall 49-54.
Zeitz, Lisa. "Biblical Allusion and Imagery in Frederick Douglass' Narrative." College Language Association Journal 25.1 (Sept. 1981): 56-64.




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