Lori Robison

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lori Robison plays a role.

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Robison, Lori 2024 Chapter 11. Haunting slavery: The Traumatic Gaze in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and A Romance of the RepublicA Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Dobie, Madeleine, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen (eds.), pp. 207–224 | Chapter
This chapter considers the disruptive power of two nineteenth-century literary scenes, one from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and one from Lydia Maria Child’s A Romance of the Republic (1867), in which portrayals of enslaved women activate the emotions of readers while… read more