Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction: Reframing Ekphrasis
- 1 Adding to the Picture: New Perspectives on David Dabydeen’s ‘Turner’
- 2 Looking beyond ‘Turner’: William B. Patrick’s ‘The Slave Ship’
- 3 ‘Slave-Ships on Fantastic Seas’: The Art of Abolition
- 4 The Secret Afterlives of Dido Elizabeth Belle
- 5 African-American Ekphrasis and the ‘Peculiar Institution’
- 6 Icon-versations: F. Douglas Brown, Jacob Lawrence and Frederick Douglass
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 March 2025
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Introduction: Reframing Ekphrasis
- 1 Adding to the Picture: New Perspectives on David Dabydeen’s ‘Turner’
- 2 Looking beyond ‘Turner’: William B. Patrick’s ‘The Slave Ship’
- 3 ‘Slave-Ships on Fantastic Seas’: The Art of Abolition
- 4 The Secret Afterlives of Dido Elizabeth Belle
- 5 African-American Ekphrasis and the ‘Peculiar Institution’
- 6 Icon-versations: F. Douglas Brown, Jacob Lawrence and Frederick Douglass
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Literature, Art and SlaveryEkphrastic Visions, pp. ix - xPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2023