Artikel 2019
Race, Religion, and the Contradictions of Identity: Frederick Douglass Visits Rome in the Wake of Other Americans
Autoren / Herausgeber: Dorothy Figueira
Veröffentlicht in: Rocznik Komparatystyczny
This essay examines nineteenth-century literary responses to the perception of Roman Catholicism’s excess. It focuses on Frederick Douglass’s visit to Rome in 1887. Douglass, a former slave who had become a gifted writer and orator, visited Italy during a Grand Tour of the con…
DOI: 10.18276/rk.2019.10-01 · ISSN: 2081-8718