L'ora e l'uomo: un romanzo storico
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~170.000 parole · 821 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAHarriet Martineau. (n.d.). The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance [L'ora e l'uomo: un romanzo storico]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance
- MLAHarriet Martineau. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance [L'ora e l'uomo: un romanzo storico]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance.
- ChicagoHarriet Martineau. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance [L'ora e l'uomo: un romanzo storico]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/harriet-martineau/the-hour-and-the-man-an-historical-romance.
Riferimento all’edizione riprodotta. SigPhi è la riproduzione digitale. Anno, editore e traduttore compaiono quando noti; «n.d.» indica un anno sconosciuto.
Di che cosa tratta
Il romanzo che Harriet Martineau scrisse nel 1841 su Toussaint Louverture e la rivoluzione di Haiti, quando la schiavitù era ancora legale in buona parte del mondo.
Contesto e storia
Martineau era scrittrice e sociologa e abolizionista dichiarata, cosa che negli Stati Uniti le era costata minacce. Fare di un ex schiavo nero l'eroe tragico di un romanzo serio era, nel 1841, una decisione politica non meno che letteraria: il libro chiede al lettore britannico di riconoscere grandezza morale e capacità di governo in un uomo cui il suo mondo negava l'una e l'altra. Come romanzo storico ha i difetti del genere e dell'epoca, e idealizza il protagonista; come documento del movimento abolizionista e dell'uso della finzione per mutare le opinioni, è di prim'ordine. Nel corpus è anche la sua opera economica e sociologica, che è più nota.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
this din, from being accustomed always to hear more or less of it, the boy amused himself with chasing the fireflies, whose light began to glance around as darkness descended. His sister was poring over her work, which she was just finishing, when a gleam of greenish light made both look up. It came from a large meteor which sailed past towards the mountains, whither were tending also the huge masses of cloud which gather about the high peaks previous to the season of rain and hurricanes. There was nothing surprising in this meteor, for the sky was full of them in August nights; but it was very beautiful. The globe of green light floated on till it burst above the mountains, illuminating the lower clouds, and revealing along the slopes of the uplands the coffee-groves, waving and bowing their heads in the wandering winds of that high region. Genifrede shivered at the sight, and her brother threw himself upon her lap. Before he had asked half his questions about the lights of the sky, the short twilight was gone, and the evening star cast a faint shadow from the tufted posts of the piazza upon the white wall of the cottage. In a low tone, full of awe, Genifrede told the boy such stories as she had heard from her father of the mysteries of the heavens. He felt that she trembled as she told of the northern lights, which had been actually seen by some travelled persons now in Cap Francais. It took some time and argument to give him an idea of cold countries; but his uncle Paul, the fisherman, had seen hail on the coast, only thirty miles from hence; and this was a great step in the evidence. Denis listened with all due belief to his sister's description of those pale lights shooting up over the sky, till he cried out vehemently, "There they are! look!" Genifrede screamed, and covered her face with her hands; while the boy shouted to his father, and ran to call his mother to see the lights.…