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Liberalism and the culture of security : the nineteenth-century rhetoric of reform /

Figures of protection and security are everywhere in American public discourse, from the protection of privacy or civil liberties to the protection of marriage or the unborn, and from social security to homeland security. Liberalism and the Culture of Security traces a crucial paradox in historical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henry, Katherine, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the rhetoric of protection
  • Declarations of independence, claims of injury
  • Unmasking slavery: Angelina Grimké's rhetoric of exposure
  • Melting into speech: Frances E.W. Harper and the citizenship of the heart
  • The eloquent girl: liberal publicity and unprotected privacy in Henry James's The Bostonians.