![]() Itself a kind of web of texts-or "text network," to borrow the term Susan Gillman has recently coined to describe Uncle Tom's Cabin-Clotel seems ideally suited to the web's special technological capacity to juxtapose multiple texts, highlight textual variants, and link to annotations and other explanatory materials. ![]() ![]() Moreover, the novel famously (or infamously, depending on your perspective) recycles a host of other texts, from Brown's own autobiographical writings to Grace Greenwood's poem "The Leap from the Long Bridge," to Englishman John Relly Beard's biography of Toussaint L'Ouverture. A Romance of American Slavery, Founded on Fact (serialized in the New York Weekly Anglo-African from 1860 to 1861) Clotelle: A Tale of the Southern States (published as part of James Redpath's series of dime novels for Union soldiers in 1864) and Clotelle or The Colored Heroine (1867). In the first place, Clotel is not really a book at all, but rather a series of books in which Brown would reinterpret his basic story over fourteen years: Clotel or the President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States (published in London in 1853) Miralda or, The Beautiful Quadroon. Perhaps no book cries out for a digital edition like William Wells Brown's novel Clotel. ![]()
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