Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature: Captivity Genres from Cervantes to Rousseau

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Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature is a collection of selected essays about the transformations of captivity experiences in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media, including works by Cervantes, de Vega, Defoe, Rousseau, and Mozart. Where most studies of Mediterranean slavery, until now, have been limited to historical and autobiographical accounts, this volume looks specifically at literary adaptations from a multicultural perspective. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 Accounts and Authenticities 1 Before Barbary Captivity Narratives: Slavery, Ransom, and the Economy of Christian Virtue in The Good Gerhard (c. 1220) by Rudolf von Ems 2 Toward a New Literary History of Captivity: Adventure and Generic Hybridity in the Late Sixteenth Century 3 Swedish Barbary Captivity Tales: From Letters to Literature (1650–1770) PART 2 Genesis and Genres 4 Cervantes’ Algerian Swan Song: The Birth of Los baños de Argel and Its Positive Portrayal of Jews 5 Female Captivity in Penelope Aubin’s The Noble Slaves (1722) and Elizabeth Marsh’s The Female Captive (1769) 6 A Dystopia as Utopia: The Algerian City of Oran and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s The Jews’ Beech Tree PART 3 Transformations and Translations 7 The Free Slave: Morality, Neostoicism, and Publishing Strategy in Emanuel d’Aranda’s Algiers and It’s Slavery (1640–82) 8 The Robinsonade as a Literary Avatar of Early Nineteenth-Century Barbary Captivity Narration PART 4 Media and Markets 9 Mozart, Islam, and the Hangman of Salzburg 10 Images from the Dey’s Court: The Artist as Slave in Algiers (1684–88) 11 Jonathan Cowdery’s American Captives in Tripoli (1806): Experience of the Frigate Philadelphia Officers (1803–05) PART 5 Captives and Concepts 12 Of Cross and Crescent: Analogies of Violence and the Topos of “Barbary Captivity” in Samuel Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph (1700), with a Postscript on Benjamin Franklin 13 Defoe, Slavery, and Barbary 14 Émile in Chains: A New Perspective on Rousseau, Slavery, and Hegel’s Phenomenology Index