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Critical Americans : Victorian Intellectuals and Transatlantic Liberal Reform /

In this intellectual history of American liberalism during the second half of the 19th century, Butler examines a group of nationally prominent and internationally oriented writers who sustained an American tradition of self-consciously progressive and cosmopolitan reform. She addresses how these me...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butler, Leslie, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Victorian duty, american scholars, and national crisis
  • The war for the union and the vindication of american democracy
  • The liberal high tide and educative democracy
  • Liberal culture in a gilded age
  • The politics of liberal reform
  • Global power and the illiberalism of empire.