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Racial Roots Of Romanticism: American And European Africanism Are The Creation Of Bio-Politics, James Flynn
Racial Roots Of Romanticism: American And European Africanism Are The Creation Of Bio-Politics, James Flynn
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The British Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the American Edgar Allan Poe shared a number of similarities in their writing styles. Both men came onto the scene early in their respective nation’s forays into Romanticism. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was of the first generation of British literary Romantics, while Poe introduced his Gothic influences before the Renaissance of American Romanticism in the 1850s. In the work of both men there is an emphasis on color as it pertains to race, especially aspects of whiteness. This focus on race has been covered at length by authors such as Toni Morrison in her book …