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23%OFFElena Mortara - Writing for Justice - Victor Sejour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations - 9781611687903 - V9781611687903
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Writing for Justice - Victor Sejour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations

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Description for Writing for Justice - Victor Sejour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations Paperback. In Writing for Justice, Elena Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Sejour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition to writing The Mulatto, an early story on slave Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBF; DSK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Weight in Grams: 544.
Winner of the European Association for American Studies Prize 2016. In Writing for Justice, Elena Mortara presents a richly layered study of the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, through close readings of the life and work of Victor Sejour, an expat American Creole from New Orleans living in Paris. In addition to writing The Mulatto, an early story on slavery in Saint-Domingue, Sejour penned La Tireuse de cartes (The Fortune-Teller, 1859), a popular play based on the famed Mortara case. In this historical incident, Pope Pius IX kidnapped Edgardo Mortara, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
521g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9781611687903
SKU
V9781611687903
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Ref
99-46

About Elena Mortara
EL NA MORTARA is a professor of American literature at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. A well-known scholar of Jewish American writing and nineteenth-century literature, she has written, edited, and translated numerous books and articles.

Reviews for Writing for Justice - Victor Sejour, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, and the Age of Transatlantic Emancipations
S jour had a bent for crossing the boundaries between cultures: espousing the cause of the discriminated Jews . . . he was able to give a universal dimension to his commitment, in line with the movement of emancipation, against slavery and prejudice, which was then becoming prominent on both sides of the Atlantic.
Antonio Carioti Corriere della sera ... Read more

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