La hora y el hombre: un romance histórico
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Texto limpio
- Extensión:
- ~170.000 palabras · 821 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAHarriet Martineau. (n.d.). La hora y el hombre: un romance histórico. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance
- MLAHarriet Martineau. "La hora y el hombre: un romance histórico." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance.
- ChicagoHarriet Martineau. La hora y el hombre: un romance histórico. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance.
De qué trata
La novela que Harriet Martineau escribió en 1841 sobre Toussaint Louverture y la revolución de Haití, cuando la esclavitud aún era legal en buena parte del mundo.
Contexto e historia
Martineau era escritora y socióloga y abolicionista declarada, cosa que en los Estados Unidos le había costado amenazas. Hacer de un antiguo esclavo negro el héroe trágico de una novela seria era, en 1841, una decisión política tanto como literaria: el libro pide al lector británico que reconozca grandeza moral y capacidad de gobierno en un hombre a quien su mundo negaba ambas cosas. Como novela histórica tiene los defectos del género y de la época, e idealiza a su protagonista; como documento del movimiento abolicionista y de cómo se usó la ficción para cambiar opiniones, es de primer orden. En el corpus está también su obra económica y sociológica, que es la más conocida.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra 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.…