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Race, slavery, and liberalism in nineteenth-century American literature /
Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum U.S. culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailing accounts of the relationship between slavery, liberalism, and literary representation. This revisionary argument promises to be unsettling for lit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
150. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the figure a "person" makes : on the aesthetics of liberalism
- Slaves and persons
- Family values and racial essentialism in Uncle Tom's cabin
- Eva's hair and the sentiments of race
- A is for anything : US liberalism and the making of The scarlet letter
- The art of discrimination : The marble faun, "Chiefly about war matters," and the aesthetics of anti-Black racism
- Freedom, ethics, and the necessity of persons : Frederick Douglass and the scene of resistance.