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First published: June 1, 2026 - Last updated: June 1, 2026
TITLE INFORMATION
Author: Srimayee Basu McCall
Title: Rape, Race, and Revolution in the Black Gallows Narrative
Subtitle: -
Journal: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies: The Journal of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume: 49
Issue: 2: New Approaches to Rape Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century (Edited by Jolene Zigarovich and Doreen Thierauf)
Year: June 2026 (Received: January 30, 2026, Revised: January 30, 2026, Accepted: February 13, 2026, Published online: May 12, 2026)
Pages: 143-162
pISSN: 1754-0194 -
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eISSN: 1754-0208 -
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Language: English
Keywords:
Modern History:
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Cases:
Real Offenders /
Joseph Mountain
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Author:
Srimayee Basu McCall,
Department of English,
University of California, Irvine -
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Abstract:
»This essay offers a reading of the famous 1790 picaresque gallows narrative Sketches of the Life of Joseph Mountain that documents the life of the titular Joseph Mountain, a Black highwayman and convicted rapist of considerable notoriety. Written by a white amanuensis, Mountain's narrative is heavily ventriloquized, and its richness lies precisely in the impossibility of fully retrieving the Black narrative voice it constructs. The essay attends to how the Black narrator's revolutionary actions and his alleged sexual crimes are conflated, signalling intersections between the reactionary fear of revolution and the racialized fear of Black sexuality.«
(Source: Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
Contents:
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Abstract (p. 143) |
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1. Rogues, Social and Sexual (p. 148) |
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2. Writing Rape (p. 155) |
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Notes (p. 159) |
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