Parfait interrelates the cultural status of this still controversial novel with its publishing history, and thus also chronicles the changing mood and mores of the nation during the past century and a half.
Après celui de Frederick Douglass (1845), le récit d William Wells Brown (1847) est le plus célèbre des récits d'esclaves fugitifs publiés aux États-Unis avant la guerre de Sécession.
Two works serve as particularly striking mid-nineteenth century examples of the complex relationships between the writer, readers, editor, and, finally, book publisher of serialized novels: Eugène Sues Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43) and ...