{"id":65715,"date":"2019-10-07T18:47:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/65715"},"modified":"2019-10-07T18:47:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T22:47:16","slug":"twelve-years-a-slave-norton-critical-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/65715","title":{"rendered":"Twelve Years a Slave (Norton Critical Editions)"},"content":{"rendered":"This Norton Critical Edition of Solomon Northup\u2019s harrowing autobiography is based on the 1853 first edition. It is accompanied by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Kevin Burke\u2019s introduction and detailed explanatory footnotes. The Norton Critical Edition also includes: \u00b7 The illustrations printed in the original book. \u00b7 Contemporary sources (1853\u201462), among them newspaper accounts of Northup\u2019s kidnapping and ordeal and commentary by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thomas W. MacMahon. \u00b7 A Genealogy of Secondary Sources (1880-2015) presenting twenty-four voices spanning three centuries on the memoir\u2019s major themes. Contributors include George Washington Williams, Marion Wilson Starling, Kenneth Stampp, Robert B. Stepto, Trish Loughran, and David Fiske, Clifford W. Brown, Jr., and Rachel Seligman, among others. \u00b7 The 2013 film adaptation\u201412 Years a Slave\u2014fully considered, with criticism and major reviews of the film as well as Henry Louis Gates’s three interviews with its director, Steve McQueen. \u00b7 A Chronology and Selected Bibliography.