ABSTRACT
Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature is a collection of selected essays about the transformations of captivity experiences in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media, including works by Cervantes, de Vega, Defoe, Rousseau, and Mozart. Where most studies of Mediterranean slavery, until now, have been limited to historical and autobiographical accounts, this volume looks specifically at literary adaptations from a multicultural perspective.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|71 pages
Accounts and Authenticities
chapter 1|22 pages
Before Barbary Captivity Narratives
Slavery, Ransom, and the Economy of Christian Virtue in The Good Gerhard (c. 1220) by Rudolf von Ems
chapter 2|22 pages
Toward a New Literary History of Captivity
Adventure and Generic Hybridity in the Late Sixteenth Century
part 2|58 pages
Genesis and Genres
chapter 4|16 pages
Cervantes’ Algerian Swan Song
The Birth of Los baños de Argel and Its Positive Portrayal of Jews
chapter 6|18 pages
A Dystopia as Utopia
The Algerian City of Oran and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s The Jews’ Beech Tree
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part 3|44 pages
Transformations and Translations
chapter 7|22 pages
The Free Slave
Morality, Neostoicism, and Publishing Strategy in Emanuel d’Aranda’s Algiers and It’s Slavery (1640–82)
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part 4|62 pages
Media and Markets
chapter 11|15 pages
Jonathan Cowdery’s American Captives in Tripoli (1806)
Experience of the Frigate Philadelphia Officers (1803–05)
part 5|54 pages
Captives and Concepts
chapter 12|18 pages
Of Cross and Crescent
Analogies of Violence and the Topos of “Barbary Captivity” in Samuel Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph (1700), with a Postscript on Benjamin Franklin
chapter 14|16 pages
Émile in Chains
A New Perspective on Rousseau, Slavery, and Hegel’s Phenomenology
