Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself | Biblical Allusion and Imagery in Frederick Douglass' Narrative
In the following essay, Zeitz explores how Douglass uses religious language and biblical allusion in his Narrative.
Frederick Douglass' Narrative, first published in 1845, has been described by a recent commentator as ''a consciously literary work, and one of the first order.’’ While I suspect that few readers would challenge this view, surprisingly few have sung the work's praises in the annals of literary criticism. Although pioneering discussions of Douglass' use of agrarian and animal imagery, nautical metaphors, ironic humour, and techniques which create verisimilitude have established a firm base upon which further studies may be built, there is one area of investigation in which the...
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