L'hora i l'home: un romanç històric
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- APAHarriet Martineau. (n.d.). L'hora i l'home: un romanç històric. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance
- MLAHarriet Martineau. "L'hora i l'home: un romanç històric." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance.
- ChicagoHarriet Martineau. L'hora i l'home: un romanç històric. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance.
De què tracta
La novel·la que Harriet Martineau va escriure el 1841 sobre Toussaint Louverture i la revolucio d'Haiti, quan la esclavitud encara era legal a bona part del mon.
Context i història
Martineau era escriptora i sociologa i era abolicionista declarada, cosa que als Estats Units li havia costat amenaces. Fer d'un antic esclau negre el heroi tragic d'una novel·la seriosa era, el 1841, una decisio politica tant com literaria: el llibre demana al lector britanic que reconegui grandesa moral i capacitat de govern en un home a qui el seu mon negava totes dues coses. Com a novel·la historica te els defectes del genere i de l'època, i idealitza el seu protagonista; com a document del moviment abolicionista i de com es va fer servir la ficcio per canviar opinions, es de primer ordre. Al corpus hi ha tambe la seva obra economica i sociologica, que es la mes coneguda.
Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.
________________________________________________________________________ The following is taken with acknowledgements from Chambers Dictionary of Biography, about the subject of this book. Pierre Dominique Toussaint l'Ouverture (1746-1803). Haitian black revolutionary leader (the surname derives from his bravery in once making a breach in the ranks of the enemy). Born of African slave parents in Haiti, he was freed in 1777. In 1791 he joined the black insurgents, and in 1797 was made commander-in-chief in the island by the French Convention. He drove out British and Spaniards, restored order and prosperity, and about 1800 began to aim at independence. Napoleon proclaimed the re-establishment of slavery, but Toussaint declined to obey. He was eventually overpowered and taken prisoner, and died in a prison in France. Harriet Martineau wrote this book in 1839, during which year she also wrote "Deerbrook", and published an analysis of her tour of America, from which she had returned in 1836. ________________________________________________________________________ THE HOUR AND THE MAN, BY HARRIET MARTINEAU. CHAPTER ONE. WAITING SUPPER. The nights of August are in Saint Domingo the hottest of the year. The winds then cease to befriend the panting inhabitants; and while the thermometer stands at 90 degrees, there is no steady breeze, as during the preceding months of summer. Light puffs of wind now and then fan the brow of the negro, and relieve for an instant the oppression of the European settler; but they are gone as soon as come, and seem only to have left the heat more intolerable than before. Of these sultry evenings, one of the sultriest was the 22nd of August, 1791.…