Vanessa D. Dickerson is a professor of English at DePauw University and the author of Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Across the Big Water: White Victorians and Black Americans 1. On Coming to America: The British Subject and the African American Slave 2. Hail Britannia: African Americans Abroad in Victorian England 3. Thomas Carlyle: Case Study of a Dark Victorian 4. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Victorian Soul of Black Folk Conclusion: Reconsidering Victorian Britain and African America Notes Works Cited Index

"[Dark Victorians'] sustained focus on the fluid nature of cultural exchange between Victorian Britain and African America offers a significant addition to the field by providing a more comprehensive view of transatlantic authorship on slavery and race in the antebellum period."--Journal of American History"Illustrates the links forged between two unlikely groups of Victorians 'who continue to speak to each other' today."--American Historical Review"A valuable addition to Victorian scholarship."--Journal of Southern History

Vanessa D. Dickerson is a professor of English at DePauw University and the author of Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Across the Big Water: White Victorians and Black Americans 1. On Coming to America: The British Subject and the African American Slave 2. Hail Britannia: African Americans Abroad in Victorian England 3. Thomas Carlyle: Case Study of a Dark Victorian 4. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Victorian Soul of Black Folk Conclusion: Reconsidering Victorian Britain and African America Notes Works Cited Index

"[Dark Victorians'] sustained focus on the fluid nature of cultural exchange between Victorian Britain and African America offers a significant addition to the field by providing a more comprehensive view of transatlantic authorship on slavery and race in the antebellum period."--Journal of American History"Illustrates the links forged between two unlikely groups of Victorians 'who continue to speak to each other' today."--American Historical Review"A valuable addition to Victorian scholarship."--Journal of Southern History

Vanessa D. Dickerson is a professor of English at DePauw University and the author of Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide: Women Writers and the Supernatural.

• Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Across the Big Water: White Victorians and Black Americans 1. On Coming to America: The British Subject and the African American Slave 2. Hail Britannia: African Americans Abroad in Victorian England 3. Thomas Carlyle: Case Study of a Dark Victorian 4. W.E.B. Du Bois and the Victorian Soul of Black Folk Conclusion: Reconsidering Victorian Britain and African America Notes Works Cited Index

"[Dark Victorians'] sustained focus on the fluid nature of cultural exchange between Victorian Britain and African America offers a significant addition to the field by providing a more comprehensive view of transatlantic authorship on slavery and race in the antebellum period."--Journal of American History"Illustrates the links forged between two unlikely groups of Victorians 'who continue to speak to each other' today."--American Historical Review"A valuable addition to Victorian scholarship."--Journal of Southern History