Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature

Mario Klarer is Professor of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck.

• IntroductionMario KlarerPart 1Accounts and Authenticities Before Barbary Captivity Narratives: Slavery, Ransom, and the Economy of Christian Virtue in The Good Gerhard (c. 1220) by Rudolf of EmsMario KlarerToward a New Literary History of Captivity: Adventure and Generic Hybridity in the Late Sixteenth CenturyMarcus HartnerSwedish Barbary Captivity Tales: From Letters to Literature (1650–1770)Joachim ÖstlundPart 2Genesis and GenresCervantes’ Algerian Swan Song: The Birth of Los Baños de Argel and Its Positive Portrayal of JewsMichael Ross GordonFemale Captivity in Penelope Aubin's The Noble Slaves (1722) and Elizabeth Marsh's The Female Captive (1769)Stefanie FrickeA Dystopia as Utopia: The Algerian City of Oran and Annette von Droste-Hülshoff’s The Jew’s BeechMagnus ResselPart 3Transformations and TranslationsThe Free Slave: Morality, Neostoicism, and Publishing Strategy in Emanuel d’Aranda’s Algiers and it’s Slavery (1640-82)Lisa F. KattenbergThe Robinsonade as a Literary Avatar of Early Nineteenth-Century Barbary Captivity NarrationRobert SpindlerPart 4Media and Markets Mozart, Islam, and the Hangman of SalzburgKurt PalmImages from the Dey’s Court: The Artist as Slave in AlgiersErnstpeter Ruhe Jonathan Cowdery’s American Captives in Tripoli (1806): Experience of the Frigate Philadelphia Officers (1803-05)Lotfi Ben RejebPart 5Captives and ConceptsOf 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 FranklinCarsten JunkerDefoe, Slavery, and BarbaryG. A. StarrÉmile in Chains: A New Perspective on Rousseau, Slavery, and Hegel’s PhenomenologyJeremy D. Popkin