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The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson - Edward Kimber

By Edward Kimber

Release Date: 2008-11-11

Genre: Literary Fiction

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In 1754 the British adventurer, compiler, and novelist Edward Kimber published The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson. Rooted in a tale Kimber heard while exploring the Atlantic seaboard, Mr. Anderson is the novelistā€™s transatlantic tale of slavery, Indian relations, and frontier life. Having been kidnapped in England, transported across the Middle Passage, and sold to a brutal Maryland planter as a white slave, Tom Anderson gains his freedom and in rapid succession becomes a successful trader, a war hero, and a friend to slave, Indian, Quebecois, and Englishman alike. Still engaging 250 years after its original publication, Mr. Anderson offers a rich and varied portrayal of the mid-eighteenth-century Atlantic world. This Broadview edition features an introduction by both a literary scholar and a historian, elaborating on significant themes in the novel. The appendices include an extensive selection of documentsā€”some unpublished elsewhereā€”further contextualizing many of those themes, including slavery, British representations of colonial America, and eighteenth-century British literatureā€™s emphasis on sensibility and the ā€œcult of feeling.ā€

The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson - Edward Kimber

By Edward Kimber

Release Date: 2008-11-11

Genre: Literary Fiction

(0 ratings)
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In 1754 the British adventurer, compiler, and novelist Edward Kimber published The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Anderson. Rooted in a tale Kimber heard while exploring the Atlantic seaboard, Mr. Anderson is the novelistā€™s transatlantic tale of slavery, Indian relations, and frontier life. Having been kidnapped in England, transported across the Middle Passage, and sold to a brutal Maryland planter as a white slave, Tom Anderson gains his freedom and in rapid succession becomes a successful trader, a war hero, and a friend to slave, Indian, Quebecois, and Englishman alike. Still engaging 250 years after its original publication, Mr. Anderson offers a rich and varied portrayal of the mid-eighteenth-century Atlantic world. This Broadview edition features an introduction by both a literary scholar and a historian, elaborating on significant themes in the novel. The appendices include an extensive selection of documentsā€”some unpublished elsewhereā€”further contextualizing many of those themes, including slavery, British representations of colonial America, and eighteenth-century British literatureā€™s emphasis on sensibility and the ā€œcult of feeling.ā€

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