Stephanie M. Volder

List of John Benjamins publications in which Stephanie M. Volder is involved.

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Volder, Stephanie M. 2025 Chapter 5. Gothic tropes and displacements of slave rebellion in Matthew G. Lewis’s Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, Madeleine Dobie and Mads Anders Baggesgaard (eds.), pp. 70–87 | Chapter
Matthew G. Lewis adapts the literary forms and tropes of Gothic and sentimental traditions to examine the relationship between master and slave on his Jamaican plantations. This chapter argues that Lewis uses the Gothic in his Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834) to represent absentee… read more
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