DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

A Norton Critical Edition

Harriet Jacobs author Frances Smith Foster editor Richard Yarborough editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:15th Jan '19

Should be back in stock very soon

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl cover

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

  • The first edition (1861), with the editors’ explanatory annotations, introduction, and glossary of the people of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
  • Three illustrations.
  • Key public statements by Harriet Jacobs, William C. Nell, the Reverend Francis J. Grimke, and others.
  • A rich selection of correspondence by Harriet Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child, and John Greenleaf Whittier, suggesting Incidents’s initial reception.
  • Ten major critical essays, six of them new to the Second Edition.
  • A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

ISBN: 9780393614565

Dimensions: 213mm x 130mm x 23mm

Weight: 343g

416 pages

Second Edition