The Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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One of the largest archives of writing by an eighteenth-century Black individual, this volume not only connects the letters of Ignatius Sancho to their social and historical contexts but also highlights their cultural and aesthetic significance. Offering an interdisciplinary range of perspectives on Sancho and his letters from across literary, historical, and cultural studies, and authored by scholars, archivists, and performers alike, it provides the first authoritative, accessible resource focused exclusively on Sancho's life and writing. Building on established connections to abolitionism and the aesthetics of sentiment, it breaks new ground by considering Sancho's continuing significance for Black British society specifically, and UK literature and history generally.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-31
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Companions to Literature
Antal sidor324
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009280648

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Nicole N. Aljoe is Professor of English and Africana Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She is co-Director of The Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Mapping Black London, and Director of the Early Black Boston Digital Almanac. She is the author of Creole Testimonies: Slave Narratives from the British West Indies, 1709–1836 (2012) and co-editor of Journeys of the Slave Narrative in the Early Americas (2014), as well as A Literary History of the Early Anglophone Caribbean: Islands in the Stream (2018). Kristina Huang is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She specializes in African diasporic literatures from the vantage point of the eighteenth-century transatlantic world. As an interdisciplinary scholar and educator, her work centers on historical representations of subaltern, enslaved, and minoritized lives and how those representations inform critical theory, literary study, and political practice. Her articles have appeared in African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, Eighteenth-Century Fiction, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, and Studies in Romanticism.

Introduction Kristina Huang and Nicole N. Aljoe; Part I. Archival Contexts and Networks: 1. Joseph Jekyll's 'Life of Ignatius Sanch' Brycchan Carey; 2. Sancho and his family Montaz Marché; 3. Ignatius Sancho's London Oliver Ayers; 4. Sancho and the Montagu family Crispin Powell; 5. Sancho's network of subscribers Lawrence Evalyn; 6. Sancho's correspondents Vincent Carretta; Part II. Social Contexts: 7. Ignatius Sancho, sentiment, and 'African sensibility' Markman Ellis; 8. Abolition and Sancho Sören Hammerschmidt; 9. Sancho's pluralistic afterlife David Mark Diamond; 10. Sancho's humor Amit Yahav; Part III. Performance, Visual Culture, and the Afterlives: 11. A social pursuit: music in the life of Ignatius Sancho Devin Leigh; 12. Ignatius Sancho and the theatre Atsede Makonnen; 13. Ignatius Sancho and visual culture Charlotte Grant; 14. Sancho: on belonging Paterson Joseph; Appendices; Index.