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Race, citizenship, and law in American literature /

In this broad ranging study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Frederick Douglass, this is a remarkably original book, that will revise the relationship between Race and Nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crane, Gregg D. (Gregg David)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colección:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 128.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Higher law in the 1850s
  • The look of higher law: Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery fiction
  • Cosmopolitan constitutionalism: Emerson and Douglass
  • The positivist alternative
  • Charles Chesnutt and Moorfield Storey: citizenship and the flux of contract.