‘A Very Hell of Horrors’? The Haitian Revolution and the Early Transatlantic Haitian Gothic.
This article explores the Gothicisation of the Haitian Revolution in the transatlantic discourse during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As it argues, the Gothic mode has to be understood as a reaction to the profound challenges that the Haitian Revolution posed to a transatlantic...
| Published in: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 183 - 206 |
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