Variations on a Raft and Serializing Anti-Slavery Content
Abstract:Henry Savigny and Alexander Corréard’s sensational memoir Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 published news of what would turn out to be one of the nineteenth century’s most harrowing and infamous shipwrecks. Inspiring Théodore Géricault’s monumental The Raft of the Medusa (1818–19), the story spawned a...