The oracle and the curse : a poetics of justice from the Revolution to the Civil War /

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Caleb Smith explores the confessions, trial reports, maledictions, and martyr narratives that juxtaposed law and conscience in antebellum America's court of public opinion and shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Caleb, 1977-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
American literature > History and criticism.
Law and literature > United States > History.
Social justice in literature.
Droit et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire.
Justice sociale dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
American literature.
Law and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
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