Radical Passion

Ottilie Assing's Reports from America and Letters to Frederick Douglass

Ottilie Assing (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

378 Seiten

2000 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
9780820445267 (ISBN)

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Radical Passion examines eighty essays and reports on the United States (1852-1865) by the German-American journalist Ottilie Assing (1819-1884) along with twenty-seven extant letters from Assing to Frederick Douglass during the years 1870-1879. A keen and critical observer of the American scene before and during the Civil War, Assing was passionately committed to her personal freedom and to political and social equality for African Americans. She believed in radical social movements, backed the German Revolution of 1848, and became an enthusiastic supporter of radical abolitionism, women's emancipation, and civil rights for black Americans. For almost three decades, she and Frederick Douglass were close intellectual collaborators and lovers. The reports and essays, originally written in German, are presented in their first English translation; an introduction provides biographical background and historical context.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.1.2000
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in German-American Studies ; 1
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in German-American Studies ; 1
Übersetzer	Christoph Lohmann
Zusatzinfo	ill.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	570 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-13	9780820445267 / 9780820445267
Zustand	Neuware