Antislavery discourse and nineteenth-century American literature : incendiary pictures /

This book examines the relationship between antislavery texts and emerging representations of "free labor" in mid-nineteenth-century America.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Husband, Julie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century.
Women abolitionists > United States > History > 19th century.
Social reformers > United States > History > 19th century.
Slavery in literature.
Protest literature, American > History and criticism.
Labor > United States > History > 19th century.
Industrialization > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Working class > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Abolitionnistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Réformateurs sociaux > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Littérature contestataire américaine > Histoire et critique.
Travail > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Industrialisation > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Travailleurs > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 > English > c 1800 to c 1900 > USA.
Slavery & abolition of slavery > English > c 1800 to c 1900 > USA.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
Literature.
Abolitionists
Antislavery movements
Industrialization > Social aspects
Labor
Protest literature, American
Slavery in literature
Social reformers
Women abolitionists
Working class > Social conditions
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Central Feminist Abolitionists and the Wage Labor System
  • 1. The Emergence of the Family Protection Campaign and Antislavery Sentimentality
  • 2. Anticipating Progressive Era Reformers: Lydia Maria Child and the Mothering State
  • pt. 2. Adaptations of the Antislavery Family Protection Campaign
  • 3. Marketplace Politics in The Scarlet Letter
  • 4. The Invisible Hand of the Marketplace: E.D.E.N. Southworth's Southern Reforms
  • 5. "The White Slave of the North": Lowell Mill Women and the Evolution of "Free Labor"
  • pt. 3. The End of Antislavery Sentimentality
  • 6. Frederick Douglass's Post-Civil War Performance of Masculinity.

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