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Secret History : Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura by Leonora Sansay (2007, Trade Paperback)
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Secret History And Laura, Paperback by Sansay, Leonora; Drexler, Michael J. (EDT), ISBN 1551113465, ISBN-13 9781551113463, Brand New, Free shipping in the US These two powerful stories of racial conflict, violence, and revolution in the nineteenth century are now available for the first time in a modern edition.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBroadview Press
ISBN-101551113465
ISBN-139781551113463
eBay Product ID (ePID)62400990
Product Key Features
Book TitleSecret History : Or, the Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicGeneral, Literary
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorLeonora Sansay
Book SeriesBroadview Editions Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2007-279710
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsMichael J. Drexler's splendidly documented, richly contextualized edition of Leonora Sansay's Secret History and Laura is indispensable to anyone studying the complexities of the Haitian Revolution, the conventions of gothic literature, and the history of the Americas. The appendices gather together for the first time letters between Sansay and Aaron Burr, as well as news reports of the Haitian Revolution in the U.S. press, observations by Charles Brockden Brown, memoirs by Condy Raguet, and paintings by Agostino Brunias. These appendices alone constitute a repository of materials that will offer scholars and students everything needed for an interdisciplinary course on romance and race-with Haiti as rightful progenitor and ancestor spirit.
Dewey Decimal813/.3
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Introduction Chronology: Haiti/USA/France/Leonora Sansay Maps of Haiti (1853) and the Caribbean (2005) A Note on the Text Secret History; or, the Horrors of St. Domingo Laura Appendix A: Biographical Documents Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 May 1803) Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (6 November 1808) Letter from Leonora Sansay to Aaron Burr (29 July 1812) William Wirt's Speech at Aaron Burr's Trial (August 1807) Review of Laura from The Port-Folio (1809) Appendix B: Literary Selections Alexander Pope, "Eloisa to Abelard" (1717) From John Armstrong, The Oeconomy of Love(1736) From Germaine de Staël, Influence of the Passions(1796) From [Leonora Sansay?], Zelica, the Creole(1821) Appendix C: Contextual Documents From Baron de Wimpffen, A Voyage to Saint Domingo(1797) From Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia(1794) [Anonymous], "Renewed War in St. Domingo" (1802) Charles Brockden Brown, "On the Consequences of Abolishing the Slave Trade to the West Indian Colonies"(1805) Engravings from Marcus Rainsford's Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti(1805) From Condy Raguet, "Account of the Massacre in St. Domingo" (1807) From [Condy Raguet], "Memoirs of Hayti" (1809-12) Agostino Brunias, Scenes of the West Indies (ca. 1780) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
SynopsisBased on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay's writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the post revolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura , Sansay's second novel, features as its protagonist a beautiful impoverished orphan who throws herself headlong into a secret marriage with a young medical student. When her husband dies in a duel in an effort to protect his wife's reputation, Laura finds herself once more alone in the world. The republication of these works will contribute to a significant revision of thinking about early American literary history. This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from periodical literature about Haiti, engravings, letters written by Sansay to her friend Aaron Burr, historical material related to the Burr trial for treason, and excerpts from literature referenced in the novels., Based on Leonora Sansay's eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret Historyis a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay's writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the postrevolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura, Sansay's second novel, features as its protagonist a beautiful impoverished orphan who throws herself headlong into a secret marriage with a young medical student. When her husband dies in a duel in an effort to protect his wife's reputation, Laura finds herself once more alone in the world. The republication of these works will contribute to a significant revision of thinking about early American literary history. This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from periodical literature about Haiti, engravings, letters written by Sansay to her friend Aaron Burr, historical material related to the Burr trial for treason, and excerpts from literature referenced in the novels., These two powerful stories of racial conflict, violence, and revolution in the nineteenth century are now available for the first time in a modern edition.
LC Classification NumberPS2769.S43 2007
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