Black Prometheus
Subtitle: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780190272586
Subjects: Prometheus (greek mythology); Mythology in literature; Slavery
Description: An innovative transnational literary study, 'Black Prometheus' tracks the mythical figure's surprising resonance in Anglo-American antislavery discourse from 1800 until the end of the US Civil War.