CONTENTS

List of Illustrations  ix

Acknowledgments  xi

INTRODUCTION

The African Americanization of Victorian Literature  1

CHAPTER ONE

Close Reading Bleak House at a Distance  23

CHAPTER TWO

(Re-)Racializing “The Charge of the Light Brigade”  45

CHAPTER THREE

Affiliating with George Eliot  76

CHAPTER FOUR

Racial Mixing and Textual Remixing: Charles Chesnutt  102

CHAPTER FIVE

Cultural Transmission and Transgression: Pauline Hopkins  135

CHAPTER SIX

The Citational Soul of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois  176

AFTERWORD

After Du Bois  205

Notes  213

Bibliography  259

Index  273