Frederick Douglass & Herman Melville : essays in relation /

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) and Herman Melville (1819-1891) addressed in their writings a range of issues that continue to resonate in American culture: the reach and limits of democracy; the nature of freedom; the roles of race, gender, and sexuality; and the place of the United States in the wo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-, Otter, Samuel, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895 > Political and social views.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Political and social views.
Douglass, Frederick, > 1818-1895.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Douglass, Frederick.
Melville, Herman.
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > History > 19th century.
Race relations > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle > 19e siècle.
Diversité culturelle dans la littérature.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
African Americans > Intellectual life.
American literature.
Literature and society.
Political and social views.
Race relations.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Aufsatzsammlung.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Revolutionary fictions and activist labor: looking for Douglass and Melville together / John Ernest
  • Fugitive justice: Douglass, Shaw, Melville / Robert K. Wallace
  • Cheer and gloom: Douglass and Melville on slave dance and music / Sterling Stuckey
  • Douglass, Melville, and the moral economies of American authorship / Susan M. Ryan
  • Volcanoes and meteors: Douglass, Melville, and the poetics of insurrection / William Gleason
  • Interracial friendship and the aesthetics of freedom / John Stauffer
  • Political theology in Douglass and Melville / Steven Mailloux
  • The ethics of impertinence: Douglass and Melville on England / Elisa Tamarkin
  • The ends of enchantment: Douglass, Melville, and U.S. expansionism in the Americas / Rodrigo Lazo
  • Fraternal melancholies: manhood and the limits of sympathy in Douglass and Melville / Elizabeth Barnes
  • Douglass's and Melville's "alphabets of the blind" / Hester Blum
  • A view from the closet: reconcilable differences in Douglass and Melville / David Van Leer
  • Riveted to the wall: covetous fathers, devoted sons, and the patriarchal pieties of Melville and Douglass / Maurice Wallace
  • Fahrenheit 1861: cross patriotism in Melville and Douglass / Russ Castronovo, Dana D. Nelson
  • White fratricide, black liberation: Melville, Douglass, and Civil War memory / Carolyn L. Karcher
  • Douglass, Melville, and the lynching of Billy Budd / Gregory Jay
  • Melville, Douglass, the Civil War, pragmatism / Maurice S. Lee
  • 1855/1955: from antislavery to civil rights / Eric J. Sundquist.

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