Frances Smith Foster, professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego, and well-known scholar of nineteenth-century African-American literature, is author of Witnessing Slavery- The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives.<
The novels challenge everything we thought we knew about American literature, about African American culture and about the course of literary history. -Ann duCille, The Women's Review of Books Add[s] both depth and detail to the legacy of [Frances Harper]. -Bob McCollough, The Boston Globe A major publishing event. The Harper novels-lively, idealistic and fun to read-change the shape of our literary canon forever. Foster's introduction sizzles. If only all literary criticism could be like this! -Jane Tompkins, author of Sensational Design and West of Everything