Wendy Laura Belcher is Assistant Professor of African literature at Princeton University in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies. She is a winner of the Washington State Governors Writers Award and PEN Society Martha Albrand finalist for first book of nonfiction.

Belcher's account radically reframes Johnson's thought while also offering a new model

• Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction 1 ; Chapter 1. Three Thousand Years of Habesha History and Discourse ; Chapter 2: Samuel Johnson's Discursive Possession and The Voyage to Abyssinia ; Chapter 3: Johnson's Reading, Beliefs, and Translation of The Voyage to Abyssinia ; Chapter 4: Habesha Discourse in The Voyage To Abyssinia ; Chapter 5: Habesha Discourse and Johnson's Drama Irene ; Chapter 6: Habesha Discourse and Johnson's Oriental Tales ; Chapter 7: Habesha Discourse in Johnson's Sources for Rasselas ; Chapter 8: Habesha Discourse and Johnson's Rasselas ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

Wendy Laura Belcher is Assistant Professor of African literature at Princeton University in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies. She is a winner of the Washington State Governors Writers Award and PEN Society Martha Albrand finalist for first book of nonfiction.

Belcher's account radically reframes Johnson's thought while also offering a new model

• Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction 1 ; Chapter 1. Three Thousand Years of Habesha History and Discourse ; Chapter 2: Samuel Johnson's Discursive Possession and The Voyage to Abyssinia ; Chapter 3: Johnson's Reading, Beliefs, and Translation of The Voyage to Abyssinia ; Chapter 4: Habesha Discourse in The Voyage To Abyssinia ; Chapter 5: Habesha Discourse and Johnson's Drama Irene ; Chapter 6: Habesha Discourse and Johnson's Oriental Tales ; Chapter 7: Habesha Discourse in Johnson's Sources for Rasselas ; Chapter 8: Habesha Discourse and Johnson's Rasselas ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

Wendy Laura Belcher is Assistant Professor of African literature at Princeton University in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for African American Studies. She is a winner of the Washington State Governors Writers Award and PEN Society Martha Albrand finalist for first book of nonfiction.

Belcher's account radically reframes Johnson's thought while also offering a new model

• Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction 1 ; Chapter 1. Three Thousand Years of Habesha History and Discourse ; Chapter 2: Samuel Johnson's Discursive Possession and The Voyage to Abyssinia ; Chapter 3: Johnson's Reading, Beliefs, and Translation of The Voyage to Abyssinia ; Chapter 4: Habesha Discourse in The Voyage To Abyssinia ; Chapter 5: Habesha Discourse and Johnson's Drama Irene ; Chapter 6: Habesha Discourse and Johnson's Oriental Tales ; Chapter 7: Habesha Discourse in Johnson's Sources for Rasselas ; Chapter 8: Habesha Discourse and Johnson's Rasselas ; Conclusion ; Bibliography