Books by Harriet Jacobs
“There is much more to say here, and I highly recommend Broadview Press’s new edition of Jacobs’s Incidents, edited and with an introduction by Professor Koritha Mitchell, which emphasizes Jacobs’s literary creativity and extensively explores her innovative engagement with various genres, including novel subgenres.” Read more...
The Best 19th-Century American Novels
Nathan Wolff, Literary Scholar
Interviews where books by Harriet Jacobs were recommended
The Best 19th-Century American Novels, recommended by Nathan Wolff
In the novels of the 19th century, the United States comes alive with all its contradictions and complications. Nathan Wolff, a professor of English at Tufts and author of Not Quite Hope and Other Political Emotions in the Gilded Age, introduces us to his picks of the best 19th-century American novels, including two works of historical fiction and a memoir that influenced the novel form.
