Race Slavery And Liberalism In Nineteenth Century American Literature

Author : Arthur Riss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139458442
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Arthur Riss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum US culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailing accounts of the relationship between slavery, liberalism, and literary representation. Situating Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass at the center of antebellum debates over the person-hood of the slave, this 2006 book examines how a nation dedicated to the proposition that 'all men are created equal' formulates arguments both for and against race-based slavery. This revisionary argument promises to be unsettling for literary critics, political philosophers, historians of US slavery, as well as those interested in the link between literature and human rights.

Author : J. Husband
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230105211
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by J. Husband and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of "free labor" in mid-nineteenth-century America. Husband shows how the images of families split apart by slavery, circulated primarily by women leaders, proved to be the most powerful weapon in the antislavery cultural campaign and ultimately turned the nation against slavery. She also reveals the ways in which the sentimental narratives and icons that constituted the "family protection campaign" powerfully influenced Americans sense of the role of government, gender, and race in industrializing America. Chapters examine the writings of ardent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, non-activist sympathizers, and those actively hostile to but deeply immersed in antislavery activism including Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Author : Christopher Freeburg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139536729
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melville and the Idea of Blackness written by Christopher Freeburg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the unique problems that 'blackness' signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas', Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness as either a metaphor for the haunting power of slavery or an allegory of moral evil, Freeburg asserts that blackness functions as the site where Melville correlates the sociopolitical challenges of transatlantic slavery and US colonial expansion with philosophical concerns about mastery. By focusing on Melville's iconic interracial encounters, Freeburg reveals the important role blackness plays in Melville's portrayal of characters' arduous attempts to seize their own destiny, amass scientific knowledge and perfect themselves. A valuable resource for scholars and graduate students in American literature, this text will also appeal to those working in American, African American and postcolonial studies.

Author : Ezra Tawil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107048761
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Slavery in American Literature written by Ezra Tawil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading scholars to examine slavery in American literature from the eighteenth century to the present day.

Author : John Ernest
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034725
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resistance and Reformation in Nineteenth-Century African-American Literature written by John Ernest and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colleen C. O'Brien
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813934907
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race, Romance, and Rebellion written by Colleen C. O'Brien and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As in many literatures of the New World grappling with issues of slavery and freedom, stories of racial insurrection frequently coincided with stories of cross-racial romance in nineteenth-century U.S. print culture. Colleen O’Brien explores how authors such as Harriet Jacobs, Elizabeth Livermore, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda imagined the expansion of race and gender-based rights as a hemispheric affair, drawing together the United States with Africa, Cuba, and other parts of the Caribbean. Placing less familiar women writers in conversation with their more famous contemporaries—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Lydia Maria Child—O’Brien traces the transnational progress of freedom through the antebellum cultural fascination with cross-racial relationships and insurrections. Her book mines a variety of sources—fiction, political rhetoric, popular journalism, race science, and biblical treatises—to reveal a common concern: a future in which romance and rebellion engender radical social and political transformation.

Author : J. Husband
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349383443
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Antislavery Discourse and Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by J. Husband and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-07 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of 'free labour' in mid-nineteenth-century America.

Author : Juliana Chow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108845711
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History written by Juliana Chow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.

Author : Ryan M. Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316519813
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era written by Ryan M. Brooks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.

Author : Justine S. Murison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139497634
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Anxiety in Nineteenth-Century American Literature written by Justine S. Murison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the nineteenth century, the nervous system was a medical mystery, inspiring scientific studies and exciting great public interest. Because of this widespread fascination, the nerves came to explain the means by which mind and body related to each other. By the 1830s, the nervous system helped Americans express the consequences on the body, and for society, of major historical changes. Literary writers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne and Harriet Beecher Stowe, used the nerves as a metaphor to re-imagine the role of the self amidst political, social and religious tumults, including debates about slavery and the revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Representing the 'romance' of the nervous system and its cultural impact thoughtfully and, at times, critically, the fictional experiments of this century helped construct and explore a neurological vision of the body and mind. Murison explains the impact of neurological medicine on nineteenth-century literature and culture.