Slavery, philosophy, and American literature, 1830-1860 /

Maurice Lee demonstrates how the slavery crisis became a crisis of philosophy. Authors including Poe, Stowe, Douglass, Melville, and Emerson tried - and failed - to find rational solutions to the slavery conflict. Drawing on antebellum moral philosophy, political theory, and metaphysics, Lee brings...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lee, Maurice S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 148.
Subjects:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Slavery in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Philosophie > Motiv
Sklaverei > Motiv
Literatur
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Absolute Poe; Chapter 2 "Lord, it's so hard to be good": affect and agency in Stowe; Chapter 3 Taking care of the philosophy: Douglass's commonsense; Chapter 4 Melville and the state of war; Chapter 5 Toward a transcendental politics: Emerson's second thoughts; Epilogue: An unfinished and not unhappy ending; Index.

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