A miserable revenge: a story of life in Virginia / George A. Newman Sr.; edited by Mollie Godfrey, Brooks E. Hefner, Jeslyn Poole, and Evan Sizemore.
2025
PS2459.N494 M57 2025
Available at 2nd (Main) Floor
Formats
| Format | |
|---|---|
| BibTeX | |
| MARCXML | |
| TextMARC | |
| MARC | |
| DublinCore | |
| EndNote | |
| NLM | |
| RefWorks | |
| RIS |
Items
Details
Title
A miserable revenge: a story of life in Virginia / George A. Newman Sr.; edited by Mollie Godfrey, Brooks E. Hefner, Jeslyn Poole, and Evan Sizemore.
ISBN
9798218624514
Published
Harrisonburg, Virginia ; James Madison University Libraries, 2025.
Language
English
Description
xxxix, 415 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PS2459.N494 M57 2025
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1519374196
Summary
In the mid-1870s, a young African American educator arrived in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he wrote a novel about antebellum life in the Shenandoah Valley. George A. Newman's A Miserable Revenge: A Story of Life in Virginia appears here in print for the first time, nearly 150 years after its composition. The earliest known example of a "white life" novel--a Black-authored novel about white protagonists--A Miserable Revenge is set in and around Winchester, Virginia, in the 1840s. It draws on the sensationalist conventions of popular fiction of the time to spin a story of dark secrets, lost relatives, mistaken identities, crime and detection, and romance. In the novel, Newman describes the relationship between free and enslaved Black Virginians, drawing on his experience as a free Black child indentured to a white landowner in Winchester before the Civil War.
Record Appears in