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Political Antislavery Discourse and American Literature of the 1850s.
This study examines how the political anti-slavery challenge to the North informed American literature of the 1850s. As the works of Stowe, Whittier, Willis, and Whitman reveal, the political discourse and literature were branches of the same project: to expose compromise with slavery as a threat to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
University of Delaware,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This study examines how the political anti-slavery challenge to the North informed American literature of the 1850s. As the works of Stowe, Whittier, Willis, and Whitman reveal, the political discourse and literature were branches of the same project: to expose compromise with slavery as a threat to each individual Northerner and to the people as an actor in history. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611493849 1611493846 |