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Twelve years a slave : authoritative text : contexts, 2013 film adaptation : criticism, reviews, interviews

Title: Twelve years a slave : authoritative text : contexts, 2013 film adaptation : criticism, reviews, interviews / Solomon Northup ; edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University ; Kevin M. Burke, Harvard University.
Author: Northup, Solomon, 1808-1863?
Publication: New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]

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xx, 410 pages : illustrations, music; 22 cm.

Summary

"Twelve Years a Slave follows the life of Solomon Northup, a free blackman who was kidnapped and sold into slavery before the Civil War. Northup's memoir, published in 1853, riveted contemporary audiences but fell out of print for several generations at the start of the twentieth century. Although it was kept alive in the writings of literary scholars, historians, and bibliographers, it wouldn't return to print until 1968, and soon found a place in the canon of the literary genre known as "the slave narratives." Northup's memoir was adapted for film in 2013 by black British auteur Steve McQueen, and the film received the Oscar for "Best Motion Picture" in 2014. Readers of this critical edition will find the Editor's Preface from 1853, the 1853 edition of the text and its appendices, as well as a number of illustrations from the original publication. "Contemporary Sources (1853-1865)" offers a range of contemporary reviews and responses, an excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe, and coverage of the court case brought against Northup's kidnappers. "A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2014)" provides readers with a comprehensive overview of early and modern commentary on Twelve Years a Slave. "Film Criticism & Reviews: 12 Years a Slave (2013)" includes responses to the film adaptation and an interview with the director Steve McQueen. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included, along with an introduction by the volume's co-authors."--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

A Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Norton critical edition.

Alternative Title

12 years a slave

Subject

Genre/Form

Film adaptations
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Film adaptations.
Adaptations cinématographiques.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-410).

Contents

Machine generated contents note: The Text of Twelve Years a Slave -- Contents -- Editor's Preface (1853) -- Twelve Years A Slave -- Appendix -- Contexts -- Contemporary Sources, 1853 -- 62 -- New York Times -- The Kidnapping Case (Jan. 1853) -- New Orleans Bee (LA) -- A Striking Contrast (Jan. 1853) -- Salem Press (NY) -- Recovery of a Free Negro (Jan. 1853) -- Sandy Hill Herald (NY) -- Uncle Sol (Mar. 1853) -- National Era (Washington, D.C.) -- A Thrilling Narrative of Slavery! (Apr. 1853) -- Salem Press (NY) -- Uncle Tom's Cabin -- No. 2 (July 1853) -- Frederick Douglass' Paper -- Literary Notices (Aug. 1853) -- American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society -- From The Thirteenth Annual Report (May 1853) -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- From A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853) -- Frederick Douglass' Paper -- Letter to Frederick Douglass from Sigma (Jan. 1854) -- Syracuse Daily Journal (NY) -- [Solomon Northup] (Jan. 1854) -- Frederick Douglass' Paper -- A Speech by a "Chattel" (Mar. 1854) -- Saratoga Whig (NY) -- The Northrup Kidnapping Case (July 1854) -- Frederick Douglass' Paper -- The Northup Kidnappers (Aug. 1854) -- Daily Picayune (LA) -- More Uncle Tom (Jan. 1855) -- Letter to the Editor (Mar. 1855) / Henry C. Wright -- Supreme Court of New York -- The People vs. Alexander Merrill and Joseph Russell (July 1855) -- Daily Saratogian (NY) -- The Solomon Northrup Case (July 1856) -- Ballston Journal (NY) -- Court Proceedings (May 1857) -- Daily Picayune (LA) -- Letter from Mississippi (May 1857) -- The Free Press (NY) -- [Merrill and Russell Indictment] (June 1857) -- The Taney Hunt Against Colored Americans (Aug. 1857) / William Cooper Nell -- From Cause and Contrast: An Essay on the American Crisis (1862) / Thomas W. MacMahon -- A Genealogy of Secondary Sources, 1881 -- 2015 -- Publishers' Preface -- From Twelve Years a Slave (c. 1881) -- From History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880 (1883) / George Washington Williams -- From Fifty Years Among Authors, Books and Publishers (1884) / James Cephas Derby -- From Freedom and Progress (1890) / Daniel Barclay Williams -- From Fugitive Slaves, 1619 -- 1865 (1891) / Marion Gleason McDougall -- From Slavery and Abolition 1831 -- 1841 (1906) / Albert Bushnell Hart -- The Heroic Fugitive (1926) / John Herbert Nelson -- Some Virginia Masters (1929, 2007) / Ulrich B. Phillips -- From The Negro Author: His Development in America (1931) / Vernon Loggins -- The Negro in the Abolitionist Movement (1941) / Herbert Aptheker -- From The Negro Caravan (1941, 1969) / Ulysses Lee -- From The Slave Narrative: Its Place in American History (1946, 1988) / Marion Wilson Starling -- From The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South (1956) / Kenneth Stampp -- From Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959) / Stanley Elkins -- From The Significance of Slave Narratives (1969) / Gilbert Osofsky -- From Black Abolitionists (1969) / Benjamin Quarles -- From To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760 -- 1865 (1986) / William L. Andrews -- From "I Rose and Found My Voice": Narration, Authentication, and Authorial Control in Four Slave Narratives (1991) / Robert B. Stepto -- "From Their Free Homes into Bondage": The Abduction of Free Blacks into Slavery (1994) / Carol Wilson -- Solomon Northup and the Sly Philosophy of the Slave Pen (1997) / Sam Worley -- (Auto)biography as History (2004) / John Ernest -- From The Republic in Print: Print Culture in the Age of U.S. Nation Building, 1770 -- 1870 (2007) / Trish Loughran -- Sharing the Story (2013) / Rachel Seligman -- Solomon Northup and Present-Day Slavery (2015) / Calvin Schermerhorn -- 2013 Film Adaptation: Criticism, Reviews, Interview -- 12 Years a Slave: Trek from Slave to Screen (2013) / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The Blood and Tears, Not the Magnolias (2013) / Manohla Dargis -- From Fighting to Survive (2013) / David Denby -- Black Life in the Balance: 12 Years a Slave (2014) / Valerie Smith -- 12 Years between Life and Death (2014) / John Stauffer -- "I Got No Comfort in This Life": The Increasing Importance of Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2014) / Salamishah Tillet -- The Root -- Steve McQueen and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talk 12 Years a Slave (2013).

ISBN

9780393264241
0393264246

LCCN

2016021467
40026720911

OCLC

ocn966353643
966353643
SCSB-1875068

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Princeton University Library