Enslavement and Emancipation (Bloom's Literary Themes)

Contents......Page 8
Series Introduction......Page 12
Volume Introduction......Page 16
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)......Page 18
Beloved (Toni Morrison)......Page 32
"The Death of Ivan Ilych" (Leo Tolstoy)......Page 44
The Declaration of Independence (Thomas Jefferson)......Page 54
The Book of Exodus......Page 80
The Poetry of Langston Hughes......Page 102
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)......Page 110
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Olaudah Equiano)......Page 134
"The Penal Colony" (Franz Kafka)......Page 138
The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln......Page 150
A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, a Slave (Frederick Douglass)......Page 164
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)......Page 182
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)......Page 194
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)......Page 202
Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)......Page 214
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)......Page 226
A Vindication of the Rights of Women and Woman in the Nineteenth Century (Mary Wollstonecraft and Margaret Fuller)......Page 238
Visions of the Daughters of Albion (William Blake)......Page 246
The Poetry of Phillis Wheatley......Page 262
The Novels of Elie Wiesel......Page 272
Acknowledgments......Page 292
Index......Page 294