The Negro in English Literature: A Critical IntroductionA. H. Stockwell, 1962 - 176 pages |
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Page 11
... early English literature , yet concepts of race and colour become more definite during the middle of the eighteenth century . The Oxford English Dictionary notes that the earliest use of the word Negro occurred in 1555 in Eden's Decades ...
... early English literature , yet concepts of race and colour become more definite during the middle of the eighteenth century . The Oxford English Dictionary notes that the earliest use of the word Negro occurred in 1555 in Eden's Decades ...
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... early writers were primarily concerned with colour , rather than race ; and it is inexcusable to think that every time a writer used the word black he was referring to a black person or a Negro . As we see in Othello , the Moor Shake ...
... early writers were primarily concerned with colour , rather than race ; and it is inexcusable to think that every time a writer used the word black he was referring to a black person or a Negro . As we see in Othello , the Moor Shake ...
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... early denunciations of slavery are rather mild ; and there is even hesitation in making the Negro a noble savage . He is generally not a subject of , but an appendage to , the poetry of the early part of the century . IV The years ...
... early denunciations of slavery are rather mild ; and there is even hesitation in making the Negro a noble savage . He is generally not a subject of , but an appendage to , the poetry of the early part of the century . IV The years ...
Contents
Preface | 9 |
Shakespeare and the Man of Colour | 23 |
The Negro and Colour in Poetry | 48 |
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